On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 04:51:35PM -0500, Aaron Conole wrote:
> Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Not every system will have recvmmsg(), so introduce compatibility code
> > that will allow it to be used blindly from the rest of the tree.
> >
> > This assumes that recvmmsg() and sendmmsg() are either both present or
> > both absent in system libraries and headers.
> >
> > CC: Yi Yang <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > I haven't actually tested this!
> 
> I have trouble understanding the motivation for this patch.  Will
> there be an attempt to rewrite netlink-socket or netdev-linux to use
> recvmmsg?  Simply adding this function with no new callers seems like
> introducing dead code.  I'd expect the next version to include some
> in-tree user.

This is relevant to Yi Yang's patch:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1204939/

I should have referred to it or put it in his thread, sorry.
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