Re: [dm-devel] Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 13/18] dm: netlink

2007-07-12 Thread Mike Anderson
; Alasdair G Kergon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > From: Mike Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > This patch adds a dm-netlink skeleton support to the Makefile, and the > > > > dm > > > > directory. > > >

Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 13/18] dm: netlink

2007-07-12 Thread Mike Anderson
Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 02:27:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:01:37 +0100 > > Alasdair G Kergon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > From: Mike Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &g

Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 14/18] dm: netlink add to core

2007-07-12 Thread Mike Anderson
Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As for worry about kmallocs do these events happen often? The worst case would most likely be in a dm multipath configuration where you could get a burst of N number events (N being equal to the number of luns times the number of paths that are havin

Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 14/18] dm: netlink add to core

2007-07-12 Thread Mike Anderson
Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I may be a little off but looking at the events types defined. > device down, device up. Defining a completely new interface for this > looks absolutely absurd. > > > This is device hotplug isn't it? As such we should be using the > hotplug infras

Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 13/18] dm: netlink

2007-07-12 Thread Mike Anderson
David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:10:29 +0400 > > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:37:36PM -0700, Mike Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > > --- linu

Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 14/18] dm: netlink add to core

2007-07-11 Thread Mike Anderson
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:01:59 +0100 > Alasdair G Kergon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: Mike Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > This patch adds support for the dm_path_event dm_send_event funtion

Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 13/18] dm: netlink

2007-07-11 Thread Mike Anderson
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:01:37 +0100 > Alasdair G Kergon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: Mike Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > This patch adds a dm-netlink skeleton supp