On Sun, 2017-05-14 at 11:51 -0400, David Miller wrote: > From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 07:58:48 +0200 > > > this patch has not been superceeded by anything, can you explain why > > it has been marked as such in patchworks? > > I think you're being overbearing by requiring this to be marked BROKEN > and I would like you to explore other ways with the authors to fix > whatever perceived problems you think SMC has. > > You claim that this is somehow "urgent" is false. You can ask > distributions to disable SMC or whatever in the short term if it > reallly, truly, bothers you. Hello Dave, There is agreement that the user-space API for using the SMC protocol must be changed, namely by dropping AF_SMC and by making applications use the SMC protocol through socket(AF_INET..., SOCK_STREAM, ...). What is your plan to avoid that applications start using and depending on AF_SMC? Thanks, Bart.