Re: Netlink connector. Revisited.

2005-09-01 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
If noone has any objection, please consider for inclusion. Thank you. On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 02:09:38PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Kernel connector - new userspace <-> kernel space easy to > use communication module which implements easy to use bidirectional > message

Re: Netlink connector. Revisited.

2005-09-01 Thread David S. Miller
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 23:51:31 +0400 > If noone has any objection, please consider for inclusion. I intend to review this soon, but I'm backlogged with other tasks at the moment. I'm hoping someone else can at least give some feedback, meanwhile. - To

Re: Netlink connector

2005-07-26 Thread Harald Welte
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:33:51PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > Netlink is transport protocol - no need to add complexity into it, > it must be as simple as possible and thus extensible. yes. but when you run into a serious addressing shortage (like the internet does with ipv4), you develop

Re: Netlink connector

2005-07-25 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 08:14:47AM +0200, Thomas Graf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-07-26 08:45 > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:46:04AM +0200, Patrick McHardy ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Usually netlink is easily extendable by using nested TLVs. B

Re: Netlink connector

2005-07-25 Thread Thomas Graf
* Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-07-26 08:45 > On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:46:04AM +0200, Patrick McHardy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Usually netlink is easily extendable by using nested TLVs. By hiding > > this you basically remove this extensibility. > > Current netlink is not ex

Re: Netlink connector

2005-07-25 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 09:56:56PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > >On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:46:04AM +0200, Patrick McHardy > >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > >>Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > >> > >> > >>>On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 04:32:32PM

Re: Netlink connector

2005-07-25 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:46:04AM +0200, Patrick McHardy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 04:32:32PM +0200, Patrick McHardy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If I understand correctly it tries to workaround some net

Re: Netlink connector

2005-07-25 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:46:04AM +0200, Patrick McHardy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 04:32:32PM +0200, Patrick McHardy > >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >>If I understand correctly it tries to workaround some netlink > >>limitations (limited

Re: Netlink connector

2005-07-25 Thread Thomas Graf
* Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-07-26 02:16 > Thomas Graf wrote: > >* Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-07-26 01:46 > > > >>You still have to take care of mixed 64/32 bit environments, u64 fields > >>for example are differently alligned. > > > >My solution to this (in the same pat

Re: Netlink connector

2005-07-25 Thread Patrick McHardy
Thomas Graf wrote: * Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-07-26 01:46 You still have to take care of mixed 64/32 bit environments, u64 fields for example are differently alligned. My solution to this (in the same patchset) is that we never derference u64s but instead copy them. I don't

Re: Netlink connector

2005-07-25 Thread Thomas Graf
* Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-07-26 01:46 > Netlink users don't have to care about shared or cloned skbs. I don't > think its a big issue to use alloc_skb and then the usual netlink > macros. Thomas added a number of macros that simplfiy use a lot. Once I've finished the generic netli

Re: Netlink connector

2005-07-25 Thread Patrick McHardy
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 04:32:32PM +0200, Patrick McHardy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If I understand correctly it tries to workaround some netlink limitations (limited number of netlink families and multicast groups) by sending everything to userspace and demultiplexing

Re: Netlink connector

2005-07-25 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 04:43:43PM +0200, Eric Leblond ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Le lundi 25 juillet 2005 à 16:32 +0200, Patrick McHardy a écrit : > > Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:02:10AM -0400, James Morris ([EMAIL > > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > If I understand corre

Re: Netlink connector

2005-07-25 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 04:32:32PM +0200, Patrick McHardy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:02:10AM -0400, James Morris > >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >>On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, David S. Miller wrote: > >> > >>>From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Netlink connector

2005-07-25 Thread Eric Leblond
Le lundi 25 juillet 2005 à 16:32 +0200, Patrick McHardy a écrit : > Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:02:10AM -0400, James Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > If I understand correctly it tries to workaround some netlink > limitations (limited number of netlink families an

Re: Netlink connector

2005-07-25 Thread Patrick McHardy
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:02:10AM -0400, James Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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

Re: Netlink connector

2005-07-25 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:02:10AM -0400, James Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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 patc