-mm patch glut

-mm patch glut

[Andrew Morton]

Various people have sent me things in the past few days: thanks, it is
queued for now.

There's a lot of stuff in -mm to go through (I'll put a summary out soon). 
For now, I'm concentrating on cleaning up the diffs and changelogs, poking
reviewers, stabilisation, testing and, once the various subsystem
maintainers (Greg) have done thir bit, merging.

I'll be looking for things to drop, too - it's getting a bit crazy.

Re: -mm patch glut

[James Morris]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:

> I'll be looking for things to drop, too - it's getting a bit crazy.

Any reason to keep the Netlink connector code?


- James
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James Morris
<jmorris@redhat.com>

Re: -mm patch glut

[Andrew Morton]

James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > I'll be looking for things to drop, too - it's getting a bit crazy.
> 
> Any reason to keep the Netlink connector code?
> 

Well it does fill a gap: something which presents a higher-level interface
to netlink capabilities.  There are several places in the kernel which do
open-coded hand-rolled netlink communications, so regularisation and
consolidation is a good thing there, if it's possible.

But the current connector implementation does that in an unpopular manner,
so we're a bit stuck.