4 messages, 3 authors, 2002-10-28 · open the first message on its own page
From: Tim Hockin <hidden>
Date: 2002-10-23 01:38:39
If not, it probably time for someone to write a generic notification scheme via netlink.
How generic? I need to pay some attention to cleaning up the next version of the link-changes via netlink patch that was discussed last week or the week before. What kind of generic are you thinking about? :)
From: jamal <hidden>
Date: 2002-10-23 03:18:33
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Tim Hockin wrote:
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If not, it probably time for someone to write a generic notification scheme via netlink.How generic? I need to pay some attention to cleaning up the next version of the link-changes via netlink patch that was discussed last week or the week before.
The patch posted by Stefan seems good to me and ready to merge.
What kind of generic are you thinking about? :)
netlink is a messaging system; so what i am thinking is creating a event notifier for other devices other than network devices. Something other non-network devices could use (eg bluetooth). Given that netlink packetizes the data, this facilitates a distributed control type of environment. cheers, jamal
From: Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy <hidden>
Date: 2002-10-23 19:36:53
netlink is a messaging system; so what i am thinking is creating a event notifier for other devices other than network devices. Something other non-network devices could use (eg bluetooth).
What kind of events are we taking about ? Max
From: jamal <hidden>
Date: 2002-10-28 12:36:13
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy wrote:
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netlink is a messaging system; so what i am thinking is creating a event notifier for other devices other than network devices. Something other non-network devices could use (eg bluetooth).What kind of events are we taking about ?
Currently, for net events, notifier_call_chain() calls from the same routines which also send netlink announcements. I am thinking actually having notifier_call_chain make the netlink advertisements. There are not that many subsystems that use notifier block calls (seems the network subsytem is their best customer ;->) i think it is the best async notification scheme in the kernel. Too bad someone had to invent hotplug the way it is right now. As i said earlier, the advantage with netlink is that you could easily add a distributed event notification scheme since it is already in packet format. cheers, jamal