netdev - Re: net: Remove iocb argument from sendmsg and recvmsg

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Date:	Tue, 10 Mar 2015 20:25:29 -0700
From:	Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...el.com>
To:	Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
CC:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: net: Remove iocb argument from sendmsg and recvmsg

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

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