From: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>
To: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: net: Remove iocb argument from sendmsg and recvmsg
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 20:25:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54FFB5A9.5030008@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54FFB3E9.50905@windriver.com>
On 03/10/2015 08:18 PM, Ying Xue wrote:
> Sorry, I did not realize the case when I created the commit. However, although I
> don't understand its scenario, in my opinion, adding one redundant argument for
> all sockets to satisfy the special case seems unreasonable for us.
In my opinion this is not about a single, special case, but rather about being able to support asynchronous operations on socket interface.
It is important for AF_ALG since we have crypto HW accelerators, that people want to access from user space, but in the future there might be other use cases.
Regards,
Tadeusz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-11 3:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2015-03-11 3:18 ` net: Remove iocb argument from sendmsg and recvmsg Ying Xue
2015-03-11 3:25 ` Tadeusz Struk [this message]
2015-03-11 4:06 ` David Miller
2015-03-11 4:39 ` Tadeusz Struk
2015-03-11 4:06 ` David Miller
2015-03-11 16:25 ` Tadeusz Struk
2015-03-11 4:02 ` David Miller
2015-03-11 16:09 ` Tadeusz Struk
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