Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262496AbVDGPul (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:50:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262497AbVDGPul (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:50:41 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:29917 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262496AbVDGPug (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:50:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:47:32 -0400 (EDT) From: James Morris X-X-Sender: jmorris@thoron.boston.redhat.com To: Kay Sievers cc: Evgeniy Polyakov , Ian Campbell , Guillaume Thouvenin , Greg KH , , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1] In-Reply-To: <20050407142349.GA26743@vrfy.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 747 Lines: 22 On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Kay Sievers wrote: > Sure, but seems I need to ask again: What is the exact reason not to implement > the muticast message multiplexing/subscription part of the connector as a > generic part of netlink? That would be nice to have and useful for other > subsystems too as an option to the current broadcast. This is a good point, in general, consider generically extending Netlink itself instead of creating these separate things. - James -- James Morris - 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/