Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264898AbTFQSzO (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:55:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264900AbTFQSzO (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:55:14 -0400 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.133]:44720 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264898AbTFQSzK (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:55:10 -0400 Message-ID: <3EEF66AA.3000509@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:06:18 -0500 From: Janice M Girouard Organization: IBM Linux Technology Center - Network Device Drivers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: "David S. Miller" , shemminger@osdl.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Janice Girouard , Daniel Stekloff , Larry Kessler , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, niv@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: patch for common networking error messages References: <200306170434.h5H4YZPZ003025@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20030617090859.0ffa0ca8.shemminger@osdl.org> <20030617.090930.102574393.davem@redhat.com> <3EEF620A.40608@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1042 Lines: 28 From: Jeff Gazik Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 01:46 ...and it's been in the tree for quite a while too. It's a shame people aren't taking advantage of it's obvious utility... I'd like to hear what others believe belong in this new netlink family. The two events that come to mind for this family (or netdev notified if that's more appropriate) are: 1) device initialization failures, 2) events that drive load balancing software. Right now if we need to throttle the card, we don't send events up to indicate we have reached capacity. Possibly the first might belong in the netdev notified family, and the second in the netlink family, since you might want to present more than a two state (success/failure.. or just failure in this case) result. - - 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/