Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/7] socket: Rename sock_create_kern() to __sock_create_kern().

David Laight
2025-05-29T21:29:14Z

On Mon, 26 May 2025 07:30:13 +0200
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:

> On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 11:21:08AM -0700, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> > Let's rename sock_create_kern() to __sock_create_kern() as a special
> > API and add a fat documentation.
> >
> > The next patch will add sock_create_kern() that holds netns refcnt.
>
> Maybe do this before patch 1 to reduce the churn of just touching a
> lot of the same callers again?

You also really want untouched source files to fail to compile.
If nothing else it'll stop backports going badly awry.

David