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Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

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Subject: Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS
From: jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 05 Apr 2005 07:00:00 -0400
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>, rml@xxxxxxxxxx, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
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and, oh yeah - wheres the documentation Evgeniy? ;->

cheers,
jamal

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 06:44, jamal wrote:
> To be fair to Evgeniy I am not against the Konnector idea. I think that
> it is a useful feature to have an easy to use messaging between
> kernel-kernel and kernel-userspace. The fact that he leveraged netlink
> instead of inventing things is a bonus. Having said that i have not
> seriously scrutinized the code - and i think the idea of this new thing
> hes tossing around called CBUS maybe pushing it.
> 
> cheers,
> jamal
> 
> On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 03:34, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:10 -0400, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > >On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:03:16AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> I received comments and feature requests from Herbert Xu and Jamal Hadi
> > >> Salim,
> > >> almost all were successfully resolved.
> > >
> > >Please do not construe my involvement in these threads as endorsement
> > >for this system.
> > 
> > Sure.
> > I remember you are against it :).
> > 
> > >In fact to this day I still don't understand what problems this thing is
> > >meant to solve.
> > 
> > Hmm, what else can I add to my words?
> > May be checking the size of the code needed to broadcast kobject changes
> > in kobject_uevent.c for example...
> > Netlink socket allocation + skb handling against call to cn_netlink_send().
> > 
> > >-- 
> > >Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/
> > >Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
> > >PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
> > 
> 
> 
> 


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