netdev - Re: net: Remove iocb argument from sendmsg and recvmsg

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Message-ID: <54FFC6EA.6080800@intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:39:06 -0700
From:	Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...el.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	ying.xue@...driver.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, hch@....de,
	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net: Remove iocb argument from sendmsg and recvmsg

On 03/10/2015 09:06 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> In my opinion this is not about a single, special case, but rather
>> > about being able to support asynchronous operations on socket
>> > interface.
> Nobody used the socket AIO facility for two decades, it just
> rotted and turned out to be buggy and reference freed stack
> memory on top of that.
> 
> I am absolutely not convinced this is the only way to solve your
> problem.

Do you have any suggestion?
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