Re: Help with netlink needed

[Tom Zanussi <zanussi at us dot ibm dot com>]

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