Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261694AbVDELAW (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 07:00:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261693AbVDELAW (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 07:00:22 -0400 Received: from mx04.cybersurf.com ([209.197.145.108]:65432 "EHLO mx04.cybersurf.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261694AbVDELAG (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 07:00:06 -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: <1112697888.1089.44.camel@jzny.localdomain> References: <1112686480.28858.17.camel@uganda> <1112697888.1089.44.camel@jzny.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: jamalopolous Message-Id: <1112698800.1088.50.camel@jzny.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 05 Apr 2005 07:00:00 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1876 Lines: 54 and, oh yeah - wheres the documentation Evgeniy? ;-> cheers, jamal On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 06:44, jamal wrote: > 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/