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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: luiz.dentz@gmail.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk,
	rodrigo.moya@collabora.co.uk, javier@collabora.co.uk,
	lennart@poettering.net, kay.sievers@vrfy.org,
	alban.crequy@collabora.co.uk, bart.cerneels@collabora.co.uk,
	sjoerd.simons@collabora.co.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] af_unix: add multicast and filtering features to AF_UNIX
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:55:09 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120302.035509.1994457175982020283.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABBYNZLwHKd5srzYYzWNL-iaeuH1K31824pY_bjRSbSLkv0QtA@mail.gmail.com>

From: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 10:39:24 +0200

> Like I said before there is many projects using AF_UNIX as IPC
> transport, the documentation actually induces people to use for this
> purpose, and many would benefit from being able to do multicast.

You can't have it both ways.

If it's useful for many applications, then many applications would
benefit from a userland library that solved the problem using
existing facilities such as IP multicast.

If it's only useful for dbus that that absoltely means we should
not add thousands of lines of code to the kernel specifically for
that application.

So either way, kernel changes are not justified.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-02  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-20 15:57 [PATCH 0/10] af_unix: add multicast and filtering features to AF_UNIX Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-02-20 15:57 ` [PATCH 01/10] af_unix: Documentation on multicast unix sockets Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-02-20 15:57 ` [PATCH 02/10] af_unix: Add constant for unix socket options level Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-02-20 15:57 ` [PATCH 03/10] af_unix: add setsockopt on unix sockets Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-02-20 16:20   ` David Miller
2012-02-20 19:13 ` [PATCH 0/10] af_unix: add multicast and filtering features to AF_UNIX Colin Walters
2012-02-21  8:07   ` Rodrigo Moya
2012-02-24 20:36 ` David Miller
2012-02-27 14:00   ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-02-27 19:05     ` David Miller
2012-02-28 10:47       ` Rodrigo Moya
2012-02-28 14:28         ` David Lamparter
2012-02-28 15:24           ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-02-28 16:33             ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-02-28 19:05         ` David Miller
2012-03-01 11:57           ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-03-01 12:26             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-01 12:33               ` David Laight
2012-03-01 12:50                 ` Rodrigo Moya
2012-03-01 12:59                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-01 13:56                     ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-03-01 16:00                       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-01 16:02                       ` Luiz Augusto von Dentz
2012-03-01 17:06                         ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-03-01 17:59                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-01 18:10                           ` Alan Cox
2012-03-01 19:02                           ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-03-01 19:29                             ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-03-01 18:53                         ` David Dillow
2012-03-01 20:55                       ` David Miller
2012-03-02  4:40                         ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-03-01 20:44               ` David Miller
2012-03-01 22:01                 ` Luiz Augusto von Dentz
2012-03-01 22:08                   ` David Miller
2012-03-02  8:39                     ` Luiz Augusto von Dentz
2012-03-02  8:55                       ` David Miller [this message]
2012-03-02  9:27                         ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-03-02  9:39                           ` David Miller
2012-03-02 13:13                           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-02 16:34                             ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-03-02 17:08                               ` Alan Cox
2012-03-05  8:38                                 ` Luiz Augusto von Dentz
2012-03-05 14:05                                   ` Martin Mares
2012-03-05 15:11                                     ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-03-05 15:49                                       ` Martin Mares
2012-03-05 18:55                           ` David Lamparter
2012-03-02 10:08                         ` Luiz Augusto von Dentz
2012-03-03 12:20                           ` Martin Mares
2012-03-02 22:19                         ` david
2012-03-01 12:57             ` Luiz Augusto von Dentz
2012-03-01 20:42             ` David Miller
2012-03-01 14:25 Erik Hugne
2012-03-01 17:18 ` Rodrigo Moya
2012-03-02  7:01   ` Ying Xue
     [not found]   ` <4F506ABC.8050807@windriver.com>
2012-03-05 15:49     ` Erik Hugne

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