netdev - remove kernel_setsockopt and kernel

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Message-Id: <20200513062649.2100053-1-hch@lst.de>
Date:   Wed, 13 May 2020 08:26:15 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        Jon Maloy <jmaloy@...hat.com>,
        Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>, drbd-dev@...ts.linbit.com,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org,
        target-devel@...r.kernel.org, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, cluster-devel@...hat.com,
        ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        rds-devel@....oracle.com, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: remove kernel_setsockopt and kernel_getsockopt

Hi Dave,

this series removes the kernel_setsockopt and kernel_getsockopt
functions, and instead switches their users to small functions that
implement setting (or in one case getting) 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 - counter to that a few kernel
drivers just set the fields directly already.

Nevertheless the diffstat looks quite promising:

 42 files changed, 721 insertions(+), 799 deletions(-)