Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261657AbVDEKpD (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 06:45:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261670AbVDEKpD (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 06:45:03 -0400 Received: from mx02.cybersurf.com ([209.197.145.105]:9710 "EHLO mx02.cybersurf.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261657AbVDEKo6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 06:44:58 -0400 Subject: Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS From: jamal Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca To: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru Cc: Herbert Xu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev , "David S. Miller" , James Morris , rml@novell.com, Greg KH , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <1112686480.28858.17.camel@uganda> References: <1112686480.28858.17.camel@uganda> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: jamalopolous Message-Id: <1112697888.1089.44.camel@jzny.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 05 Apr 2005 06:44:48 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1680 Lines: 45 To be fair to Evgeniy I am not against the Konnector idea. I think that it is a useful feature to have an easy to use messaging between kernel-kernel and kernel-userspace. The fact that he leveraged netlink instead of inventing things is a bonus. Having said that i have not seriously scrutinized the code - and i think the idea of this new thing hes tossing around called CBUS maybe pushing it. cheers, jamal On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 03:34, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:10 -0400, Herbert Xu wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:03:16AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > >> > >> I received comments and feature requests from Herbert Xu and Jamal Hadi > >> Salim, > >> almost all were successfully resolved. > > > >Please do not construe my involvement in these threads as endorsement > >for this system. > > Sure. > I remember you are against it :). > > >In fact to this day I still don't understand what problems this thing is > >meant to solve. > > Hmm, what else can I add to my words? > May be checking the size of the code needed to broadcast kobject changes > in kobject_uevent.c for example... > Netlink socket allocation + skb handling against call to cn_netlink_send(). > > >-- > >Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ > >Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} > >Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ > >PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt > - 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/