Re: [Patch 9/9] Generic netlink interface for delay accounting

[Matt Helsley]

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 19:56 -0500, Shailabh Nagar wrote:
<snip>

> Comments addressed (all in response to Jamal)
> 
> - Eliminated TASKSTATS_CMD_LISTEN and TASKSTATS_CMD_IGNORE

The enums for these are still in the patch. See below.

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> +/*
> + * Commands sent from userspace
> + * Not versioned. New commands should only be inserted at the enum's end
> + */
> +
> +enum {
> +       TASKSTATS_CMD_UNSPEC,           /* Reserved */
> +       TASKSTATS_CMD_NONE,             /* Not a valid cmd to send
> +                                        * Marks data sent on task/tgid exit */
> +       TASKSTATS_CMD_LISTEN,           /* Start listening */
> +       TASKSTATS_CMD_IGNORE,           /* Stop listening */

>From the description I thought you had eliminated these.

> +       TASKSTATS_CMD_PID,              /* Send stats for a pid */
> +       TASKSTATS_CMD_TGID,             /* Send stats for a tgid */
> +};

Jamal, was your Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:29:09 -0500 reply:
> Note, you are still not following the standard scheme of doing things.
> Example: using command = GET and the message carrying the TGID to note
> which TGID is of interest. Instead you have command = TGID.
> 
> cheers,
> jamal

meant to suggest that TASKSTATS_CMD_(P|TG)ID should be renamed to
TASKSTATS_CMD_GET_(P|TG)ID ? Is that sufficient? Or am I
misunderstanding?

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Cheers,
	-Matt Helsley

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