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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 09:23:16 +0200
Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] remove kernel_setsockopt and kernel_getsockopt v2
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To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 09:54:36PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> this series removes the kernel_setsockopt and kernel_getsockopt
> functions, and instead switches their users to small functions that
> implement setting (or in one case getting) a sockopt directly using
> a normal kernel function call with type safety and all the other
> benefits of not having a function call.
> 
> In some cases these functions seem pretty heavy handed as they do
> a lock_sock even for just setting a single variable, but this mirrors
> the real setsockopt implementation unlike a few drivers that just set
> set the fields directly.

Hi Dave and other maintainers,

can you take a look at and potentially merge patches 1-30 while we
discuss the sctp refactoring?  It would get a nice headstart by removing
kernel_getsockopt and most kernel_setsockopt users, and for the next
follow on I wouldn't need to spam lots of lists with 30+ patches again.