Re: [mpls-linux-general] Netlink Vs ioctl

[Abhijit G. <gab...@ee...>]

James R. Leu wrote :

>Now (in mpls-linux-1.1xx) I've moved back to using ioctl for everything.
>Netlink is nice, it works, but is a little over kill for what I'm doing.

What you call as overkill I would say flexibility.

>If I ever need to send notification back to userland about MPLS changes, then
>I'll consider netlink again.

One will have to eventually - eg. Stuff like Label Resource Available etc.
Cannot be done so effectively without netlink.  Also repeatatively packets
with some label(s) are causing problems, netlink is the way to notify the
userspace abt it.

I think question here is becoming more _religious_. However I have seen
some draft few days back which was aiming at making netlink a standard
interface between userspace/kernelspace. Donno how and when this will
happen.

-abhijit