From: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>,
Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: how to report network device errors to userspace?
Date: 19 Jun 2002 17:45:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34rfzq6wb.fsf@trained-monkey.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Andi Kleen's message of "Wed, 19 Jun 2002 23:36:59 +0200"
>>>>> "Andi" == Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:
Andi> On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 05:19:14PM -0400, Chris Friesen wrote:
>> Currently the way we are doing it for ethernet is that the
>> userspace app calls a device ioctl() with SIOCGMIIREG multiple
>> times per second, but it would be nice to have the driver notify us
>> asynchronously.
Andi> I would suggest sending a netlink message from the driver.
Andi> That's really what netlink was designed for.
Hmmm, the broader issue here is that we should aim for a generic
interface - if netlink is the way, maybe it would be worth documenting
it and moving towards getting it into more/all drivers.
I have had this question from other sides as well - hadn't thought of
netlink.
Cheers,
Jes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-19 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-19 18:39 how to report network device errors to userspace? Chris Friesen
2002-06-19 20:21 ` Donald Becker
2002-06-19 21:19 ` Chris Friesen
2002-06-19 21:36 ` Andi Kleen
2002-06-19 21:44 ` Chris Friesen
2002-06-19 21:54 ` Andi Kleen
2002-06-20 2:44 ` James Morris
2002-06-20 2:50 ` jamal
2002-06-19 21:45 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2002-06-19 21:50 ` Chris Friesen
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