Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-05 Thread James Morris
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:05 -0400, James Morris wrote: > > Evgeniy, > > > > Please send networking patches to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > It was sent there two times. I googled around quite a lot to track the origin of the patches down but didn't do the

Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-05 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 07:00 -0400, jamal wrote: > and, oh yeah - wheres the documentation Evgeniy? ;-> In the tree :) Documentation/connector/connector.txt - some notes, API. Documentation/connector/cn_test.c - kernel example. Uses cn_netlink_send(), notification feature. I will send today a path

Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-05 Thread jamal
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

Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-05 Thread jamal
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 t

Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-05 Thread Guillaume Thouvenin
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:34 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:10 -0400, Herbert Xu wrote: > > >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

Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-05 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
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 thes

Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-05 Thread Herbert Xu
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. In fact to this d

Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-05 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:10 -0400, James Morris wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, James Morris wrote: > > > A few questions: > > Also, please allow cn_add_callback() allow it to be passed a NULL > callback function, so the caller doesn't pass in a dummy function and your > code doesn't waste time de

Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-05 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:05 -0400, James Morris wrote: > Evgeniy, > > Please send networking patches to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It was sent there two times. > Your connector code (under drivers/connector) is now in the -mm tree and > as far as I can tell, has not received any review from the network

Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-04 Thread James Morris
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, James Morris wrote: > A few questions: Also, please allow cn_add_callback() allow it to be passed a NULL callback function, so the caller doesn't pass in a dummy function and your code doesn't waste time dealing with something which isn't real. - James -- James Morris <[E

Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-04 Thread James Morris
Evgeniy, Please send networking patches to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your connector code (under drivers/connector) is now in the -mm tree and as far as I can tell, has not received any review from the network developers. Looking at it briefly, it seems quite unfinished. I'm not entirely sure what it'