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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 6/7] socket: Replace most sock_create()
 calls with sock_create_kern().
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On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 11:21:12AM -0700, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> Except for only one user, sctp_do_peeloff(), all sockets created
> by drivers and fs are not tied to userspace processes nor exposed
> via file descriptors.
> 
> Let's use sock_create_kern() for such in-kernel use cases as CIFS
> client and NFS.

So if sock_create is now almost unused and the special case, should
it also be renamed to make that explicit and make people not accidentally
use it by default?