Subject: Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
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On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 07:00 -0400, jamal wrote:
> and, oh yeah - wheres the documentation Evgeniy? ;->

In the tree :)
Documentation/connector/connector.txt - some notes, API.
Documentation/connector/cn_test.c - kernel example.
Uses cn_netlink_send(), notification feature.

I will send today a pathc that adds in-source documentation
bits with some code cleanups.

> cheers,
> jamal
>=20
> 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.
> >=20
> > cheers,
> > jamal
> >=20
> > 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:
> > > >>=20
> > > >> 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 endorsemen=
t
> > > >for this system.
> > >=20
> > > Sure.
> > > I remember you are against it :).
> > >=20
> > > >In fact to this day I still don't understand what problems this thin=
g is
> > > >meant to solve.
> > >=20
> > > Hmm, what else can I add to my words?
> > > May be checking the size of the code needed to broadcast kobject chan=
ges
> > > in kobject_uevent.c for example...
> > > Netlink socket allocation + skb handling against call to cn_netlink_s=
end().
> > >=20
> > > >--=20
> > > >Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/
> > > >Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> > > >Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
> > > >PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
> > >=20
> >=20
> >=20
> >=20
--=20
        Evgeniy Polyakov

Crash is better than data corruption -- Arthur Grabowski

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