Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:57:09 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Send quota messages via netlink |
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:26:47 +0200 Jan Kara wrote:
> On Tue 28-08-07 21:13:35, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:13:18 +0200 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm sending rediffed patch implementing sending of quota messages via netlink > > > interface (some rationale in patch description). I've already posted it to > > > LKML some time ago and there were no objections, so I guess it's fine to put > > > it to -mm. Andrew, would you be so kind? Thanks. > > > Userspace deamon reading the messages from the kernel and sending them to > > > dbus and/or user console is also written (it's part of quota-tools). The > > > only remaining problem is there are a few changes needed to libnl needed for > > > the userspace daemon. They were basically acked by the maintainer but it > > > seems he has not merged the patches yet. So this will take a bit more time. > > > > > > > So it's a new kernel->userspace interface. > > > > But we have no description of the interface :( > Oops, forgotten about it. I'll write one. Do we have some standard place > where to document such interfaces? I could create some file in > Documentation/filesystems/ but that seems a bit superfluous...
It looks like other quota documentation is in Documentation/filesystems/, and that seems reasonable to me for the other quota docs & this one.
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