Re: [PATCH 1/3] rxrpc: Don't permit use of connect() op and simplify sendmsg() op

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Apr 14 2016 - 21:07:22 EST


From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:05:41 +0100

> Simplify the RxRPC user interface and remove the use of connect() to direct
> client calls. It is redundant given that sendmsg() can be given the target
> address and calls to multiple targets are permitted from a client socket
> and also from a service socket.

You can't just change completely the socket semantics for your
protocol like this, every single userland application is going to
break.

Sorry, there is no way I am applying changes like this.