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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: -mm patch glut
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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.