Re: CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV - bad or just misunderstood?

From: Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 06:15:52 EST


lars@larsshack.org (Lars Kellogg-Stedman) writes:

> This has been bugging for me a long, long time. The help text for
> CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV says:
>
> "This is a backward compatibility option, choose Y for now.
> This option will be removed soon."
>
> Okay, but it's said this throughout the 2.2.x series, and it's still there
> in the latest development kernel. What's the story here? What exactly
> does "netlink device emulation" get us?

character device based access to netlink. See netlink(7) for details on
what netlink is.

nfsd (nfs-utils) depends on it ATM, because nobody ported the user part
to the socket based PF_NETLINK interface yet. Shouldn't be that hard.

-Andi

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