From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karthikeyan Ramasubramanian Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] net: msm_ipc: Add user-space support for MSM_IPC Router Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:06:18 -0600 Message-ID: <4DF0FD8A.1000304@codeaurora.org> References: <1307555467-1530-1-git-send-email-kramasub@codeaurora.org> <20110609.001149.2112721409565728649.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110609.001149.2112721409565728649.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-arm-msm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 6/9/2011 1:11 AM, David Miller wrote: > > There is no reason to create a whole new socket address family, use > genetlink instead. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html The prospect of using NETLINK sockets was investigated and it seems to be supporting the communication between user-space and kernel-space processes. One of the requirements/goals for this MSM_IPC Router is to enable the communication between the processes running on different processors & OSes, and the addressing mechanism of NETLINK sockets is insufficient to address the processes running in different processors and OSes. We also have the requirements of built-in name service, remote process's status detection, location transparency etc. That is the reason for this home-grown solution with a requirement for new socket address family. Please let me know if you need any other information. Thanks and Regards, Karthik. -- Sent by an employee of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum.