Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 1/4] net: socket: add support for async operations

From: Tadeusz Struk <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:43:16 -0700

On 03/19/2015 09:20 AM, Al Viro wrote:
> is completely pointless.  Just have sock_read_iter() and sock_write_iter()
> check if your new methods are present and use those if those are.
> 

Ok, that will work for me too.

> What's more, I'm not at all sure that you want to pass iocb that way -
> kernel-side msghdr isn't tied to userland one anymore, so we might as well
> stash a pointer to iocb into it.  Voila - no new methods needed at all.

Good point, so what do you prefer - to add iocd to msghdr or to call the new
methods from sock_read_iter() and sock_write_iter()?
Either way is good for me.