RFD: Rework/extending functionality of mdev

[Michael Conrad]

The question I was asking was only about this:

On 3/12/2015 12:04 PM, Harald Becker wrote:
> but that one will only work when you either use the kernel hotplug 
> helper mechanism, or the netlink approach. You drop out those who 
> can't / doesn't want to use either. 

...which I really do think could be answered in one paragraph :-) If the 
netlink socket is the "right way" to solve the forkbomb problem that 
happens with hotplug helpers, then why would anyone want to solve it the 
wrong way?  I don't understand the need.

-Mike