Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net/smc: Reduce overflow of smc clcsock listen queue

Jakub Kicinski
2022-01-13T18:50:49Z

On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 09:07:51 +0100 Karsten Graul wrote:
> Lets decide that when you have a specific control that you want to implement.
> I want to have a very good to introduce another interface into the SMC module,
> making the code more complex and all of that. The decision for the netlink interface
> was also done because we have the impression that this is the NEW way to go, and
> since we had no interface before we started with the most modern way to implement it.
>
> TCP et al have a history with sysfs, so thats why it is still there.
> But I might be wrong on that...

To the best of my knowledge you are correct.