Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] enable hires timer to timeout datagram socket

Hello,

On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 10:26:45AM -0700, David Miller wrote:

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 18:23:22 +0100

quoted

I don't know that anyone's ever tried saying "show me the chapter and
verse of the documentation"

Do you know why I brought this up?  Because the person I am replying
to told me that the syscall documentation should have suggested this
or that.

That's why.

:-) My intention was for sure not to upset anybody.

Just to reiterate, the point of patch is simple, there was a change in behavior in the system call from one kernel version to the other. As I mentioned, I agree that the userspace could use other means to achieve the same, but still the system call behavior has changed.

So let's concentrate on the other aspects of my reply, ok?

I agree. I would prefer to understand here what is the technical reason not to accept these patches other than "use other system calls".


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All the best,
Eduardo Valentin