[RFC PATCH 09/11] soc: mediatek: dram-ecc: add a generic netlink event interface

Jonathan Cameron jonathan.cameron at oss.qualcomm.com
Mon Nov 2 12:20:19 PST 2026


On Mon, 2 Nov 2026 17:23:31 +0800
santino.wang <santino.wang at mediatek.com> wrote:

> From: Santino Wang <santino.wang at mediatek.com>
> 
> Multicast every decoded corrected and uncorrectable error to user
> space through a generic netlink family, so a monitoring daemon can
> subscribe to events instead of polling the counters.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Santino Wang <santino.wang at mediatek.com>
There is a long history of using tracepoints for this. Why netlink?

This patch needs a lot more background information.

Jonathan



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