netdev - Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take4 2/6] support multiple logging

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Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:14:50 +0900
From:	Keiichi KII <k-keiichi@...jp.nec.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take4 2/6] support multiple logging

>> We don't really have anything that corresponds to netpoll's
>> connections at higher levels.
>>
>> I'm tempted to say we should make this work more like the dummy
>> network device. ie:
>>
>> modprobe netconsole -o netcon1 [params]
>> modprobe netconsole -o netcon2 [params]
> 
> The configuration of netconsole's looks like the configuration of routes.
> Granted you probably have more routes than netconsoles, but the interface
> issues are similar.  Netlink with a small application wouldn't be nice.
> And having /proc/net/netconsole (read-only) would be good for the netlink
> impaired.

Do you say that we had better use procfs instead of sysfs to show the 
configurations of netconsole?

If so, I have a question.
I thought that "procfs use things related to process as far as possible".
Is it no problem to use procfs here? 

-- 
Keiichi KII
NEC Corporation OSS Promotion Center
E-mail: k-keiichi@...jp.nec.com


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