On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 04:42:14AM -0400, Harald Welte ([email protected]) wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:02:10AM -0400, James Morris wrote:
> > On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, David S. Miller wrote:
> > >From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[email protected]>
> > >Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:14:55 +0400
> > >>Andrew has no objection against connector and it lives in -mm
> > >A patch sitting in -mm has zero significance.
> >
> > The significance I think is that Andrew is trying to gently encourage some
> > further progress in the area.
>
> Patrick McHardy is currently working on some ideas on how to extend
> netlink.
>
> The fundamental problem that the connector is trying to solve:
>
> 1) provide more 'groups' (to transport more different kinds of events)
> 2) provide an abstract API for other kernel code, so it doesn't have to
> know anything about skb's or networking.
>
> IMHO issue number '1' should (and can) be adressed within netlink. Wait
> for Patrick's work on this to show up on netdev. We can then think
> whether the connctor API (or something similar) can be put on top of it.
Fair enough.
Let's do it this way.
> --
> - Harald Welte <[email protected]> http://netfilter.org/
> ============================================================================
> "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early
> architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going
> on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
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