Re: [PATCH net-next v6 5/6] net: devmem: document SO_DEVMEM_AUTORELEASE socket option

Mina Almasry
2025-11-05T17:44:42Z

On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/04, Bobby Eshleman wrote:
> > From: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@meta.com>
> >
>
> [..]
>
> > +Autorelease Control
> > +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Have you considered an option to have this flag on the dmabuf binding
> itself? This will let us keep everything in ynl and not add a new socket
> option. I think also semantically, this is a property of the binding
> and not the socket? (not sure what's gonna happen if we have
> autorelease=on and autorelease=off sockets receiving to the same
> dmabuf)

I think this thread (and maybe other comments on that patch) is the
context that missed your inbox:

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/aQIoxVO3oICd8U8Q@devvm11784.nha0.facebook.com/

Let us know if you disagree.

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Thanks,
Mina