linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL afs: Development for 5.4

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Message-ID: <8821.1568903040@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:24:00 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>,
        Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL afs: Development for 5.4

Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:

> Why is it organised this way?  I mean, yes, technically, rxrpc is a
> generic layer-6 protocol that any blah blah blah, but in practice no
> other user has come up in the last 37 years, so why bother pretending
> one is going to?  Just git mv net/rxrpc fs/afs/ and merge everything
> through your tree.

Note that, unlike 9p, sunrpc and ceph, rxrpc is exposed as a network protocol
and can be used directly with socket(AF_RXRPC, ...).  I have part of a
userspace tool suite that uses this.

David