From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jheffner@psc.edu
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Clean up owner field in sock_lock_t
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:45:46 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070912.014546.78722298.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11895336933187-git-send-email-jheffner@psc.edu>
From: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:01:31 -0400
> I don't know why the owner field is a (struct sock_iocb *). I'm assuming
> it's historical. Can someone check this out? Did I miss some alternate
> usage?
AIO used it somehow in net/socket.c and I believe there was some
intention to access this sock_iocb deeper in the call chain.
None of that materialized of course :)
> These patches are against net-2.6.24.
Thanks a lot, I'll add these patches.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-12 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-11 18:01 [PATCH 0/2] Clean up owner field in sock_lock_t John Heffner
2007-09-11 18:01 ` [PATCH 1/2] [NET] Cleanup: Use sock_owned_by_user() macro John Heffner
2007-09-11 18:01 ` [PATCH 2/2] [NET] Change type of owner in sock_lock_t to int, rename John Heffner
2007-09-12 8:45 ` David Miller [this message]
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