On Thu, 2006-22-06 at 10:27 -0500, Steve Wise wrote: > > The in-kernel Infiniband subsystem needs to know when certain events > happen. For example, if the mac address of a neighbour changes. Any > rdma devices that are using said neighbour need to be notified of the > change. You are asking that I extend the netlink facility (if > necessary) to provide this functionality. >
No - what these 2 gents are saying was these events and infrastructure already exist. If there are some events that dont and you need to extend what already exists. Your patch was a serious reinvention of the wheel (and in the case of the neighbor code looking very wrong). As an example, search for NETDEV_CHANGEADDR,NETDEV_CHANGEMTU etc. Actually you are probably making this too complicated. Listen to events in user space and tell infiniband from user space. 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
