On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Julius Volz wrote: >>> I wonder if now would be a good time to bite the bullet and design >>> a new interface that is extendable. >> >> If we really have to break it once for IPv6 anyways, it seems like a >> good opportunity. Depends on how invasive the changes would need to >> be, of course... > > You don't need to break the old interface, just add an additional > one. Ok, then we will just keep the old one in parallel for some time. >> You probably already have some ideas on what a better interface would >> look like? Especially, how to design it for future backwards >> compatibility? And would it still use sockopts or rather one of the >> other communication mechanisms? > > I'd suggest genetlink or nfnetlink. Ah, that's what I thought... Are there any simple kernel examples with userspace counterparts to look at? I know iproute2 uses netlink, but it seems like a rather complicated example. Genetlink seems especially nice, although I couldn't find a general explanation of it other than in git history. Julius -- Google Switzerland GmbH -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lvs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
