Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV - bad or just misunderstood? | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 03 Mar 2000 12:15:52 +0100 |
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lars@larsshack.org (Lars Kellogg-Stedman) writes:
> This has been bugging for me a long, long time. The help text for > CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV says: > > "This is a backward compatibility option, choose Y for now. > This option will be removed soon." > > Okay, but it's said this throughout the 2.2.x series, and it's still there > in the latest development kernel. What's the story here? What exactly > does "netlink device emulation" get us?
character device based access to netlink. See netlink(7) for details on what netlink is.
nfsd (nfs-utils) depends on it ATM, because nobody ported the user part to the socket based PF_NETLINK interface yet. Shouldn't be that hard.
-Andi
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