Subject: Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 13/18] dm: netlink

From: Matt Mackall <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:19:20 -0500

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 02:27:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:01:37 +0100
> Alasdair G Kergon <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > From: Mike Anderson <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > This patch adds a dm-netlink skeleton support to the Makefile, and the dm
> > directory.
> > 
> > ...
> >  
> > +config DM_NETLINK
> > +	bool "DM netlink events (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> > +	depends on BLK_DEV_DM && EXPERIMENTAL
> > +	---help---
> > +	Generate netlink events for DM events.
> 
> Need a dependency on NET there?

It's really sad to make DM dependent on the network layer.

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