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Re: AF_BUS socket address family

From:  David Miller <davem-AT-davemloft.net>
To:  vincent.sanders-AT-collabora.co.uk
Subject:  Re: AF_BUS socket address family
Date:  Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:18:21 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:  <20120629.161821.948325645333976311.davem@davemloft.net>
Cc:  netdev-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

From: Vincent Sanders <vincent.sanders@collabora.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:12:37 +0100

> I had hoped you would have at least read the opening list where I
> outlined the underlying features which explain why none of the
> existing IPC match the requirements.

I had hoped that you had read the part we told you last time where
we explained why multicast and "reliable delivery" are fundamentally
incompatible attributes.

We are not creating a full address family in the kernel which exists
for one, and only one, specific and difficult user.


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