Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262399AbVDGJMx (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 05:12:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262401AbVDGJMx (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 05:12:53 -0400 Received: from smtpout19.mailhost.ntl.com ([212.250.162.19]:11805 "EHLO mta13-winn.mailhost.ntl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262399AbVDGJMn (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 05:12:43 -0400 Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1] From: Ian Campbell To: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin , greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <1112861638.28858.92.camel@uganda> References: <1112859412.18360.31.camel@frecb000711.frec.bull.fr> <1112860419.28858.76.camel@uganda> <1112861638.28858.92.camel@uganda> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:12:32 +0100 Message-Id: <1112865153.3086.134.camel@icampbell-debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 783 Lines: 21 On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:13 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > The main idea was to simplify userspace control and notification > system - so people did not waste it's time learning how skb's are > allocated > and processed, how socket layer is designed and what all those > netlink_* and NLMSG* mean if they do not need it. Isn't connector built on top of netlink? If so, is there any reason for it to be a new subsystem rather than an extension the the netlink API? Ian. -- Ian Campbell Employees and their families are not eligible. - 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/