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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mst@redhat.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, nhorman@tuxdriver.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: packet: option to only pass skb protocol
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:40:38 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100105.134038.21223965.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100105205040.GA30921@redhat.com>

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 22:50:40 +0200

> binding socket to device might be done by a separate process
> from the one doing sendmsg, and IMO the device socket is bound
> to might change at any time.
> 
> So the sending process would need to get socket name before
> each sendmsg.
> 
> Makes sense?

Not really, when it's at the expense of everyone else.

If you can pass the FD around, you can pass around auxiliary
information as well.

Make sense? :-)



  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-05 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-05 18:57 [PATCH] net: packet: option to only pass skb protocol Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-05 19:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-01-05 20:50   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-05 21:40     ` David Miller [this message]
2010-01-05 21:50       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-05 21:28 ` Chris Friesen
2010-01-05 21:42   ` David Miller
2010-01-05 21:45     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-05 22:05       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-05 22:13     ` Chris Friesen
2010-01-05 22:27       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-05 23:51       ` David Miller
2010-01-06  9:12         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-06 19:24           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-07  8:27           ` Michał Mirosław

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