From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936086AbXGMHFp (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:05:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934871AbXGMHFH (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:05:07 -0400 Received: from relay.2ka.mipt.ru ([194.85.82.65]:35414 "EHLO 2ka.mipt.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933182AbXGMHFF (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:05:05 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:03:22 +0400 From: Evgeniy Polyakov To: Andrew Morton Cc: Matt Mackall , Alasdair G Kergon , dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mike Anderson , netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 13/18] dm: netlink Message-ID: <20070713070321.GA10361@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20070711210137.GE24114@agk.fab.redhat.com> <20070711142712.e646995b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070712231920.GZ11166@waste.org> <20070712163115.ee686f8d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070712163115.ee686f8d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 04:31:15PM -0700, Andrew Morton (akpm@linux-foundation.org) wrote: > > > Need a dependency on NET there? > > > > It's really sad to make DM dependent on the network layer. > > > > Yes, it would be somewhat sad. However one can presumably continue to use > DM, just without "DM netlink events". On my machine device mapper (lvm, raid) does not work without sockets, (maybe not dm, but hotplug, which creates nodes, or configuration) so it already depends on it. Hotplug depends on networking. You missed the day when everyone started to depend on networking :) -- Evgeniy Polyakov