netdev - Re: remove kernel_setsockopt and kernel

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Date:   Thu, 14 May 2020 12:18:38 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Cc:     'Joe Perches' <joe@...ches.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
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        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
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Subject: Re: remove kernel_setsockopt and kernel_getsockopt

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 08:29:30AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> You need to export functions that do most of the socket options
> for all protocols.

Only for those were we have users, and all those are covered.