Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751137AbWEVSxk (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 14:53:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751136AbWEVSxk (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 14:53:40 -0400 Received: from relay.2ka.mipt.ru ([194.85.82.65]:57043 "EHLO 2ka.mipt.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751131AbWEVSxj (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 14:53:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 22:53:27 +0400 From: Evgeniy Polyakov To: Balbir Singh Cc: Tim Bird , Andrew Morton , Martin Peschke , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: netlink vs. debugfs (was Re: [Patch 0/6] statistics infrastructure) Message-ID: <20060522185327.GB31454@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <1148054876.2974.10.camel@dyn-9-152-230-71.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20060519092411.6b859b51.akpm@osdl.org> <4471FE52.8090107@am.sony.com> <20060522183359.GA26551@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060522183359.GA26551@in.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.7.5 (2ka.mipt.ru [0.0.0.0]); Mon, 22 May 2006 22:53:28 +0400 (MSD) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 651 Lines: 15 On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:04:00AM +0530, Balbir Singh (balbir@in.ibm.com) wrote: > Anybody else want to take a shot in comparing the two? Netlink is always presented in the kernel, so no need to make additional dependencies for special FS. But number of netlink sockets is not that big, so use new one if you create really generic mechanism, or consider using connector/gennetlink. -- Evgeniy Polyakov - 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/