Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 21:59:42 -0300
From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: chas williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Cc: Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@sfgoth.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][ATM] use rtnl_{lock,unlock} during device operations (take 2)
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chas williams wrote:
> we (in particualr ekinize) added point to multipoint signalling.
> its mostly handled in user space (atmsigd).

Oh, that's pretty cool.

> at that point we would probably just fix it to use the netlink
> interface (or whatever is going to be the acceptable interface)

netlink is just the transport, plus a bit of addressing and such.
It's still largely up to you to decide what goes into these
messages.

- Werner

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