On 6/9/2011 1:11 AM, David Miller wrote:
There is no reason to create a whole new socket address family, use genetlink instead. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
The prospect of using NETLINK sockets was investigated and it seems to be supporting the communication between user-space and kernel-space processes.
One of the requirements/goals for this MSM_IPC Router is to enable the communication between the processes running on different processors & OSes, and the addressing mechanism of NETLINK sockets is insufficient to address the processes running in different processors and OSes.
We also have the requirements of built-in name service, remote process's status detection, location transparency etc. That is the reason for this home-grown solution with a requirement for new socket address family.
Please let me know if you need any other information. Thanks and Regards, Karthik. -- Sent by an employee of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
