Re: [PATCH] Improve behaviour of Netlink Sockets

[Pablo Neira <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Herbert,

Herbert Xu wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 08:08:40AM -0400, jamal wrote:
>  
>
> > Since netlink is being used for a lot of things now, it may be time to
> > obsolete those assumptions. 
> >    
> I'm not against changes.  But so far I haven't seen anything concrete
> about what these new things are yet :)
>  
Nothing mysterious :), people are willing to put more and more things in 
kernel space, so I wanted to evaluate netlink sockets as a method to 
pass information from kernel to user space and vice-versa.
I think that, instead of putting all the things in kernel space, a 
kernel component can provide an API to user space programs to interact 
with them, so I wanted to evaluate them to figure out what they could do 
and what they could't do at this moment. I can also focus this to 
component replication.
regards,
Pablo