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Message-ID: <20070712081028.GB25699@2ka.mipt.ru>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:10:29 +0400
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To: Mike Anderson <andmike@...ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>, dm-devel@...hat.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 13/18] dm: netlink
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:37:36PM -0700, Mike Anderson (andmike@...ibm.com) wrote:
> > > --- linux.orig/include/linux/netlink.h 2007-07-11 21:37:31.000000000 +0100
> > > +++ linux/include/linux/netlink.h 2007-07-11 21:37:50.000000000 +0100
> > > @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
> > > #define NETLINK_DNRTMSG 14 /* DECnet routing messages */
> > > #define NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT 15 /* Kernel messages to userspace */
> > > #define NETLINK_GENERIC 16
> > > -/* leave room for NETLINK_DM (DM Events) */
> > > +#define NETLINK_DM 17 /* Device Mapper */
> > > #define NETLINK_SCSITRANSPORT 18 /* SCSI Transports */
> > > #define NETLINK_ECRYPTFS 19
> >
> > Have the net guys checked this?
>
> No. The support is a derivative of the netlink support in
> scsi_transport_iscsi.c.
I'm not sure about all net guys, but the first question rised after
reading this - why do you want special netlink family and do not want to
use interfaces created on top of - like connector and genetlink?
> -andmike
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Evgeniy Polyakov
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