netdev - Re: [PATCH -mm 2/10][RFC] aio: net use struct socket for io

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Date:	Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:44:27 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>
To:	Nate Diller <nate@...mi.com>
Cc:	Nate Diller <nate.diller@...il.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
	Kenneth W Chen <kenneth.w.chen@...el.com>,
	David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com,
	linux-aio@...ck.org, xfs-masters@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 2/10][RFC] aio: net use struct socket for io

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:54:50 -0800
Nate Diller <nate@...mi.com> wrote:

> Remove unused arg from socket operations
> 
> The sendmsg and recvmsg socket operations take a kiocb pointer, but none of
> the functions actually use it.  There's really no need even theoretically,
> it's really quite ugly having it there at all.  Also, removing it will pave
> the way for a more generic completion path in the file_operations.
> 
> ---

Would getting rid of these make later implementation of AIO networking
harder?
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