netdev - Re: [PATCH] Document the kernel

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Date:	Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:35:56 +0100
From:	Martin Lucina <mato@...elna.sk>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Martin Sustrik <sustrik@...bpm.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document the kernel_recvmsg() function

rdunlap@...otime.net said:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:04:05 +0100 Martin Lucina wrote:
> 
> > [Updated and sent to the netdev mailing list, Eric thx for the pointer]
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > so, today we spent all day figuring out how the kernel_sendmsg() function
> 
>                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Maybe you could document that one also??  Thanks.

Sorry, that was a typo. But yes, we'll get to kernel_sendmsg(), as soon as
we can actually test that properly...

In any case, kernel_recvmsg() appears to be the more evil of the two, since
it was not obvious at all that it modifies the pointers passed in to kvec.

-mato
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