[dm-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/2] dm-mp netlink events
Christophe Varoqui
christophe.varoqui at free.fr
Wed Nov 9 09:10:00 UTC 2005
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 11:54:23PM -0800, Mike Anderson wrote:
> This patch series creates a dm-mp hardware handler that sends netlink
> messages when a hardware handlers error function is called. The skb
> mempool in this patch is derived / copied from
> drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c.
>
> Currently I have created this support in a hardware handler to reduce the
> impact on other code, but this code could easily be moved to
> dm-mpath.c::do_end_io or higher if desired. The events will also contain
> better information once the scsi error mapping patches are done.
>
> This patch series contains:
> 1 A hardware handler that sends events over netlink (dm-evt)
> 2 A sample user space program to receive / display events.
> (dm_evtd)
>
Would uevents work instead of yet another Netlink wire ?
The multipath daemon already listens for uevents ...
Regards,
cvaroqui
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