On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 04:42:14AM -0400, Harald Welte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:02:10AM -0400, James Morris wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, David S. Miller wrote: > > >From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:14:55 +0400 > > >>Andrew has no objection against connector and it lives in -mm > > >A patch sitting in -mm has zero significance. > > > > The significance I think is that Andrew is trying to gently encourage some > > further progress in the area. > > Patrick McHardy is currently working on some ideas on how to extend > netlink. > > The fundamental problem that the connector is trying to solve: > > 1) provide more 'groups' (to transport more different kinds of events) > 2) provide an abstract API for other kernel code, so it doesn't have to > know anything about skb's or networking. > > IMHO issue number '1' should (and can) be adressed within netlink. Wait > for Patrick's work on this to show up on netdev. We can then think > whether the connctor API (or something similar) can be put on top of it.
Fair enough. Let's do it this way. > -- > - Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://netfilter.org/ > ============================================================================ > "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early > architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going > on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie -- Evgeniy Polyakov - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
