Re: netlink vs. debugfs (was Re: [Patch 0/6] statistics infrastructure)

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:04:00AM +0530, Balbir Singh ([email protected]) wrote:
> Anybody else want to take a shot in comparing the two?

Netlink is always presented in the kernel, so no need to make
additional dependencies for special FS.
But number of netlink sockets is not that big, so use new one if you
create really generic mechanism, or consider using connector/gennetlink.

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	Evgeniy Polyakov
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References:
- [Patch 0/6] statistics infrastructure
  - From: Martin Peschke <[email protected]>
- Re: [Patch 0/6] statistics infrastructure
  - From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
- netlink vs. debugfs (was Re: [Patch 0/6] statistics infrastructure)
  - From: Tim Bird <[email protected]>
- Re: netlink vs. debugfs (was Re: [Patch 0/6] statistics infrastructure)
  - From: Balbir Singh <[email protected]>

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