Re: [RFC PATCH 09/11] soc: mediatek: dram-ecc: add a generic netlink event interface

From: Jonathan Cameron

Date: Mon Nov 02 2026 - 16:21:36 EST


On Mon, 2 Nov 2026 17:23:31 +0800
santino.wang <santino.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Santino Wang <santino.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Multicast every decoded corrected and uncorrectable error to user
> space through a generic netlink family, so a monitoring daemon can
> subscribe to events instead of polling the counters.
>
> Signed-off-by: Santino Wang <santino.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
There is a long history of using tracepoints for this. Why netlink?

This patch needs a lot more background information.

Jonathan