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From: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>
To: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: net: Remove iocb argument from sendmsg and recvmsg
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 20:25:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54FFB5A9.5030008@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54FFB3E9.50905@windriver.com>

On 03/10/2015 08:18 PM, Ying Xue wrote:
> Sorry, I did not realize the case when I created the commit. However, although I
> don't understand its scenario, in my opinion, adding one redundant argument for
> all sockets to satisfy the special case seems unreasonable for us.

In my opinion this is not about a single, special case, but rather about being able to support asynchronous operations on socket interface.
It is important for AF_ALG since we have crypto HW accelerators, that people want to access from user space, but in the future there might be other use cases.
Regards,
Tadeusz

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-11  3:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <54FFAA5B.3080608@intel.com>
2015-03-11  3:18 ` net: Remove iocb argument from sendmsg and recvmsg Ying Xue
2015-03-11  3:25   ` Tadeusz Struk [this message]
2015-03-11  4:06     ` David Miller
2015-03-11  4:39       ` Tadeusz Struk
2015-03-11  4:06   ` David Miller
2015-03-11 16:25     ` Tadeusz Struk
2015-03-11  4:02 ` David Miller
2015-03-11 16:09   ` Tadeusz Struk

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