On Mon, 2006-19-06 at 18:37 -0400, Shailabh Nagar wrote: > Completing the documentation on generic netlink usage will definitely be > useful. I'd be happy to help out with this since I've recently gone through > trying to understand and use genetlink for the taskstats interface. Hopefully > this will help other users like me who aren't netlink experts to begin with ! >
Thanks - I really appreciate it. > I've sent you a patch to the document that attempts to cover the following > TODOS (didn't see any point sending it to the whole list since its harder to > read patches to documentation). Pls use as you see fit. > Ive received it and will respond to you privately. > > TODO: > > a) Add a more complete compiling kernel module with events. > > Have Thomas put his Mashimaro example and point to it. > (not the Mashimaro example, nor a completly compiled module but snippets > of pseudo code taken from the user space program used in taskstats > development, > modified to the foobar example you've used) Thomas had a more complete piece of code which exercised more paths. The document just has to point to where that code is. > > b) Describe some details on how user space -> kernel works > > probably using libnl?? > > c) Describe discovery using the controller.. > > I'll provide another patch that will cover d) and e) in the set below, again > in the context of the foobar example, which might need to be modified a bit. > no problem. go nuts. > > d) talk about policies etc > > e) talk about how something coming from user space eventually > > gets to you. > > f) Talk about the TLV manipulation stuff from Thomas. > > g) submit controller patch to iproute2 > > One point...does d), f) etc. belong in a separate doc describing usage > of netlink attributes ? Its useful here too but not directly related to > genetlink perhaps. > My thought was to provide a one-stop shop; however, it may be a separate doc or incorporated in this and referenced by it. > > PS:- I dont have a good place to put this doc and point to, hence the > > 17K attachment > > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hadi/ ? > > (unless your permissions have been revoked for lack of use ! :-) > I am only allowed to put kernel patches there by the powers that be. So this wont fit the criteria. It is hard to believe in these times my ISP charges me $1/M/month every time i exceed my allocated 5M quota. I have been with this ISP for > 10 years, hence migration gets harder - and given that many years on the same account, even my .bashrc approaches 5M ;-> cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
