From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751813AbcDOBHS (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2016 21:07:18 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:42348 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750957AbcDOBHQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2016 21:07:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 21:07:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20160414.210713.1128991767536792390.davem@davemloft.net> To: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] rxrpc: Don't permit use of connect() op and simplify sendmsg() op From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20160412150540.20637.31886.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> References: <20160412150533.20637.23952.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20160412150540.20637.31886.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.7 on Emacs 24.5 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Thu, 14 Apr 2016 18:07:15 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: David Howells Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:05:41 +0100 > Simplify the RxRPC user interface and remove the use of connect() to direct > client calls. It is redundant given that sendmsg() can be given the target > address and calls to multiple targets are permitted from a client socket > and also from a service socket. You can't just change completely the socket semantics for your protocol like this, every single userland application is going to break. Sorry, there is no way I am applying changes like this.