Github user tdas commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/4723#issuecomment-75495853
@davies It is a the new experimental API for Kafka, which does not use
Receivers at all, and rather treats Kafka as a file system and topics as files.
It finds new data in topic pretty much like your patch to support appends in
file stream.
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