netdev - Re: [PATCH] Phonet: set the pipe handle using setsockopt

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Date:	Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:15:17 +0200
From:	Rémi Denis-Courmont 
	<remi.denis-courmont@...ia.com>
To:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Phonet: set the pipe handle using setsockopt

Le Mercredi 16 Novembre 2011 09:46:07 ext Hemant-vilas RAMDASI a écrit :
> > Why and how?
> 
> This is needed for user to poll pipe-state.

The pipe state is already exposed with poll() for all that user space should 
ever need to care about.

Polling state with getsockopt would probably break power management anyway.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net/

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