RE: [PATCH 27/33] sctp: export sctp_setsockopt_bindx

[David Laight]

From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
> Sent: 13 May 2020 19:01
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 08:26:42AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > And call it directly from dlm instead of going through kernel_setsockopt.
> 
> The advantage on using kernel_setsockopt here is that sctp module will
> only be loaded if dlm actually creates a SCTP socket.  With this
> change, sctp will be loaded on setups that may not be actually using
> it. It's a quite big module and might expose the system.
> 
> I'm okay with the SCTP changes, but I'll defer to DLM folks to whether
> that's too bad or what for DLM.

I didn't see these sneak through.

There is a big long list of SCTP socket options that are
needed to make anything work.

They all need exporting.

	David

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