From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761117AbXGLJ7x (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:59:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758810AbXGLJ7m (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:59:42 -0400 Received: from relay.2ka.mipt.ru ([194.85.82.65]:32883 "EHLO 2ka.mipt.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758595AbXGLJ7l (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:59:41 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:10:29 +0400 From: Evgeniy Polyakov To: Mike Anderson Cc: Andrew Morton , Alasdair G Kergon , dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 13/18] dm: netlink Message-ID: <20070712081028.GB25699@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20070711210137.GE24114@agk.fab.redhat.com> <20070711142712.e646995b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070711233736.GA29241@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070711233736.GA29241@us.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:37:36PM -0700, Mike Anderson (andmike@us.ibm.com) wrote: > > > --- linux.orig/include/linux/netlink.h 2007-07-11 21:37:31.000000000 +0100 > > > +++ linux/include/linux/netlink.h 2007-07-11 21:37:50.000000000 +0100 > > > @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ > > > #define NETLINK_DNRTMSG 14 /* DECnet routing messages */ > > > #define NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT 15 /* Kernel messages to userspace */ > > > #define NETLINK_GENERIC 16 > > > -/* leave room for NETLINK_DM (DM Events) */ > > > +#define NETLINK_DM 17 /* Device Mapper */ > > > #define NETLINK_SCSITRANSPORT 18 /* SCSI Transports */ > > > #define NETLINK_ECRYPTFS 19 > > > > Have the net guys checked this? > > No. The support is a derivative of the netlink support in > scsi_transport_iscsi.c. I'm not sure about all net guys, but the first question rised after reading this - why do you want special netlink family and do not want to use interfaces created on top of - like connector and genetlink? > -andmike -- Evgeniy Polyakov