Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 01 Oct 2004 12:51:51 +0300 | | From | Timo Teräs <> | | Subject | Re: kobject events questions |
Robert Love wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 16:37 +0300, Timo Teräs wrote:
>>1) Send the events so that they are always associated with the network
>>devices class_device kobject. I guess this would be quite clean way to
>>do it, but it'd require adding a new signal type and would limit the
>>iptables target to be associated always with a interface.
>>
>>2) Create a device class that has virtual timer devices that trigger
>>events (ie. /sys/class/utimer). Each timer could have some attributes
>>(like expired, expire_time, etc.) and would emit "change" signals
>>whenever timer expires.
>
> Well, #1 is the intention and spirit of the kevent system.
>
> And adding a new signal type is fine.
>
> So the only downside is that the table to interface association thing.
> I have no idea how big an issue that is for you.
I'm just a bit dubious about adding new signals since they are hardcoded
in the kernel. It's a time consuming process to add new signals (either
for development build or for official kernels). This is one of the
reasons I liked more about the original kevent patch. Wouldn't simple
#defines have been enough for signal names?
> You could of course create a new kobject, ala #2, but that does not seem
> optimal if the object is otherwise worthless. I don't think that you
> should create a new class. Better to put something under /sys/net
> related to what you are doing.
I thought quite a bit about to where add my kobjects. I couldn't find a
/sys/net on my current system (am I missing some config option?). If you
mean /sys/class/net aren't all kobject in there supposed to be of same
type (namely class_device associated with net_device). Of course I could
add them under some interface, but then again my iptables rules would
have to be interface specific and this is the thing I'm trying to avoid
in this approach. Adding to /sys would be an overkill as it'd require
implementing a subsystem. And I couldn't find any other suitable place
so ended up making a new class.
I actually made some test code to add a new class and it's relatively
simple. But I guess it isn't really useful if I'd be the only user.
Maybe it could have some features that'd make it more generic?
Of course, I could use the "connector" patch that Greg pointed, but I'd
still like more the kevent approach. Namely, it'd make my userland app
much simpler.
Cheers,
Timo
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