Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

From: Ian Campbell
Date: Thu Apr 07 2005 - 04:14:25 EST


On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:13 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> The main idea was to simplify userspace control and notification
> system - so people did not waste it's time learning how skb's are
> allocated
> and processed, how socket layer is designed and what all those
> netlink_* and NLMSG* mean if they do not need it.

Isn't connector built on top of netlink? If so, is there any reason for
it to be a new subsystem rather than an extension the the netlink API?

Ian.
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