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Message-ID: <20070528074120.GC20506@gundam.enneenne.com>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 09:41:20 +0200
From: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@...eenne.com>
To: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Generic netlink interface help
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 04:42:47AM +0300, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> >
> > Is that right?
> At first glance, this could work yes.
Great! Now I have only to write the userland tool. :)
> However, it seems you're trying to encapsulate your pps_netlink_msg into
> a generic netlink message which itself is already encapsulated into a
> netlink message, and then multiplex all your PPS commands on
> ppl_genl_data_ready(). IMHO, you should have your different PPS commands
> declared as a genl_ops array, and then have a specific doit routine per PPS
> command. This would make your code cleaner and more secure (see the
> "Operation Granularity" section at
> http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Generic_Netlink_HOWTO).
I see. I already supposed that but currently I'm trying to do minimal
changes to my code in order to verify that everythink works well
again, then I'll do the complete work.
Thanks a lot,
Rodolfo
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