Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261513AbVDJPJS (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 11:09:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261510AbVDJPJR (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 11:09:17 -0400 Received: from mx02.cybersurf.com ([209.197.145.105]:28364 "EHLO mx02.cybersurf.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261509AbVDJPI2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 11:08:28 -0400 Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1] From: jamal Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca To: James Morris Cc: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, Thomas Graf , Kay Sievers , Herbert Xu , ijc@hellion.org.uk, guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net, greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, netdev In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: jamalopolous Message-Id: <1113145700.1088.324.camel@jzny.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 10 Apr 2005 11:08:21 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 809 Lines: 23 On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 10:56, James Morris wrote: > On 10 Apr 2005, jamal wrote: > > > Thats what the original motivation for konnector was. To make it easy > > for joe dumbass. > > Who you really want writing kernel code :-) Ok, let me take that back then ;-> The value is in allowing people who are kernel hackers that are trying to focus on an entirely different problem to not really know much about the internals of the messaging subsystem (if you wanna call netlink that). A good example will be the fork patches which were posted recently. cheers, jamal - 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/