Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264826AbTFQQAI (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2003 12:00:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264828AbTFQQAI (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2003 12:00:08 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:52950 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264826AbTFQQAG (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2003 12:00:06 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:09:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20030617.090930.102574393.davem@redhat.com> To: shemminger@osdl.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, girouard@us.ibm.com, stekloff@us.ibm.com, janiceg@us.ibm.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, lkessler@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, niv@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: patch for common networking error messages From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20030617090859.0ffa0ca8.shemminger@osdl.org> References: <200306170434.h5H4YZPZ003025@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20030617090859.0ffa0ca8.shemminger@osdl.org> X-FalunGong: Information control. X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 736 Lines: 19 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:08:59 -0700 Read the hotplug thread to see how Linus said, he will never add a binary event daemon interface. Funny, rtnetlink is exactly this and it is in the tree :-) Every networking configuration event is transmitted over rtnetlink sockets to all listeners, in a fixed binary format. What Linus doesn't want is this for configuration events, ie. things like "device appears" not "my ethernet burped" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/