netdev - Re: [NET_SCHED] Traffic Control subsystem Notifier for Kernel Modules

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Message-Id: <20080208.002404.241903230.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:24:04 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	yashpal.dutta@...escale.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kim.phillips@...escale.com
Subject: Re: [NET_SCHED] Traffic Control subsystem Notifier for Kernel
 Modules

From: Yashpal Dutta <yashpal.dutta@...escale.com>
Date: Fri,  8 Feb 2008 12:49:42 +0530

> The patch adds raw notifiers in Traffic Control subsystem for communicating
> Queue Disciplines and Classifiers added by user via TC application.
> Interested kernel modules will have to register to the TC subsystem
> to be able to get new QDisc notifys asynchronously.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yashpal Dutta <yashpal.dutta@...escale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@...escale.com>

You can simply listen on the appropriate netlink socket for these
events already.  There is no reason I can see to provide them over a
different framework like this.
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