linux-kernel - Re: AF_BUS socket address family

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Message-Id: <20120629.161821.948325645333976311.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:18:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vincent.sanders@...labora.co.uk
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AF_BUS socket address family

From: Vincent Sanders <vincent.sanders@...labora.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:12:37 +0100

> I had hoped you would have at least read the opening list where I
> outlined the underlying features which explain why none of the
> existing IPC match the requirements.

I had hoped that you had read the part we told you last time where
we explained why multicast and "reliable delivery" are fundamentally
incompatible attributes.

We are not creating a full address family in the kernel which exists
for one, and only one, specific and difficult user.
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