[PATCH] net: stream: add description for sk_stream_write_space()
From: Suchit Karunakaran <hidden>
Date: 2025-07-16 15:34:14
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Subsystem:
networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Add a proper description for the sk_stream_write_space() function as previously marked by a FIXME comment. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Suchit Karunakaran <redacted> --- net/core/stream.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/stream.c b/net/core/stream.c
index b16dfa568a2d..7a37e7dd2c43 100644
--- a/net/core/stream.c
+++ b/net/core/stream.c@@ -23,9 +23,13 @@ /** * sk_stream_write_space - stream socket write_space callback. - * @sk: socket + * @sk: pointer to the socket structure * - * FIXME: write proper description + * This function is invoked when there's space available in the socket's + * send buffer for writing. It first checks if the socket is writable, + * clears the SOCK_NOSPACE flag indicating that memory for writing + * is now available, wakes up any processes waiting for write operations + * and sends asynchronous notifications if needed. */ void sk_stream_write_space(struct sock *sk) {
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