netdev - Re: Add a SOCK_DESTROY operation to close sockets from userspace

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Date:	Thu, 19 Nov 2015 08:47:44 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	zenczykowski@...il.com, lorenzo@...gle.com,
	hannes@...essinduktion.org, stephen@...workplumber.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, ek@...gle.com,
	dtor@...gle.com
Subject: Re: Add a SOCK_DESTROY operation to close sockets from userspace

On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 11:33 -0500, David Miller wrote:

> Android folks really do not care about upstream, and it is probably
> bottom of their priority.  Their actions consistently support this.

Well, in this case they contacted me and we worked on a modern
solution, candidate for upstream kernel.

It took lot of iterations and I felt the result was quite nice.

So if the reaction of this is "Patch is coming from Android, must be yet
another hack", it is quite not fair.




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