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Re: Help with netlink needed
Martin Hunt writes:
> On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 10:57 -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote:
>
> > As I've also discussed with you, Vara, and mentioned a couple times on
> > this list, it might make sense to consider relayfs as one part of the
> > equation, namely the high-speed tracing part, but I don't know that it
> > makes sense as a general-purpose transport.
>
> I am looking at it more closely, trying to determine that too.
>
> I am also concerned about building relayfs. Can it be built separately,
> or will existing Red Hat kernels need to be patched and rebuilt?
>
I suppose you could build it separately, haven't tried, but in any
case it's pretty self-contained - just copy the files in fs/relayfs/*,
include/linux/relayfs_fs.h and a one-line change each in fs/Kconfig
and fs/Makefile. Oh, and the documentation in
Documentation/filesytems/relayfs.txt.
Tom