netdev - Re: [net-next 5/5] net: sock: remove the definition of SOCK

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Date:   Fri, 15 Feb 2019 23:41:26 +0800
From:   Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, shaoyafang@...iglobal.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 5/5] net: sock: remove the definition of SOCK_DEBUG()

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 10:58 PM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 6:50 AM Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > As SOCK_DEBUG() isn't used any more, we can get ride of it now.
> >
>
> No, we are still using this infrastructure from time to time.
>
> I told you I agreed to remove the current (obsolete) TCP call sites,
>  I never suggested to remove SOCK_DEBUG() completely.

All right, however I'm not persuaded by you.
Because SOCK_DEBUG() is not a smart way for debugging, which requires
the user code to be modified.
We have other more flexible methords.


Thanks
Yafang