Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754027AbYGWMkq (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:40:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754415AbYGWMkb (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:40:31 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.172]:61715 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754333AbYGWMka (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:40:30 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Wbi+K/DLk3zcXSHYy8zKg1MiqGh2FhAwB93v1ZHZ3DVogyU3zNZEBu4WZW1aUoZsMl tHbpOhw6uDKcszmaavR31mKlBoJsFdWeYgKE8i4+h1QdXPlo95eGiWZzvRVGYIQ+Bn4U ogq2xL44bZwK470lECp1X7FbsmLiX5oppoFhw= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:40:29 +0200 From: "Jerome Arbez-Gindre" To: "Evgeniy Polyakov" Subject: New IDX in linux/connector.h ? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, deweerdt@free.fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1170 Lines: 34 Hi Evgeniy, Nowadays, I'm working on a free software framework called TSP (https://savannah.nongnu.org/p/tsp) one of its components is a Blackboard (Aka BB). It is simply a structured shared memory with named fields. At the beginning, the BB was used to share/export data between two or more userspace processes. The blackboard also comes with messaging capabilities (which allows to synchronize processes). I'm working on a kernel port of the BB... and particularly on the messaging feature. My implementation is thus a user of your connector API My request is the following: Would it be possible to declare in linux/connector.h an IDX for the BB, without any restriction on the VAL the BB could use? We are willing to include the BB in-tree but this needs to be discussed (in terms of usefulness) as the current kernel implementation shares lots of code with the userspace implementations. Thanks Jerome -- 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/