From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761581AbXEJLqI (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 07:46:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761284AbXEJLpO (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 07:45:14 -0400 Received: from 81-174-11-161.f5.ngi.it ([81.174.11.161]:45966 "EHLO mail.enneenne.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761605AbXEJLpL (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 07:45:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 13:45:03 +0200 From: Rodolfo Giometti To: David Miller Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxpps@ml.enneenne.com Message-ID: <20070510114502.GJ11009@enneenne.com> References: <20070502193314.GA23367@enneenne.com> <20070510002740.c4350813.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070510105837.GB979@enneenne.com> <20070510.040152.39159048.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070510.040152.39159048.davem@davemloft.net> Organization: GNU/Linux Device Drivers, Embedded Systems and Courses X-PGP-Key: gpg --keyserver keyserver.linux.it --recv-keys D25A5633 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.32.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: giometti@enneenne.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] LinuxPPS: Pulse per Second support for Linux X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 (built Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:44:12 +0100) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mail.enneenne.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 04:01:52AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > It's not OK, please use the generic netlink interface and as > such you will not need to allocate any numbers at all. > > Documentation/networking/generic_netlink.txt gives a link > to some infomration on this topic. If I well understand doing like this means that I have to modify also userland API, is that true? I know that you are forcing in using this new interface for new kernel projects, but if I have to change my code I need also change NTPD related code and this is frustrating. I have to interact with both kernel developers and NTPD ones... :) It could be acceptable let me use id "20" (or just another number) to allow Andrew Morton and other LinuxPPS users to test this new support? Please, consider that this is not a new project, it was developed since 2005 when this new interface was not available. Thanks for your attention, Rodolfo -- GNU/Linux Solutions e-mail: giometti@enneenne.com Linux Device Driver giometti@gnudd.com Embedded Systems giometti@linux.it UNIX programming phone: +39 349 2432127