linux-kernel - Re: remove most callers of kernel

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Date:   Thu, 28 May 2020 11:12:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hch@....de
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Subject: Re: remove most callers of kernel_setsockopt v3

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 07:12:08 +0200

> this series removes most callers of the kernel_setsockopt functions, and
> instead switches their users to small functions that implement setting a
> sockopt directly using a normal kernel function call with type safety and
> all the other benefits of not having a function call.
> 
> In some cases these functions seem pretty heavy handed as they do
> a lock_sock even for just setting a single variable, but this mirrors
> the real setsockopt implementation unlike a few drivers that just set
> set the fields directly.
 ...

Series applied, thanks Christoph.