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Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:

> Why is it organised this way?  I mean, yes, technically, rxrpc is a
> generic layer-6 protocol that any blah blah blah, but in practice no
> other user has come up in the last 37 years, so why bother pretending
> one is going to?  Just git mv net/rxrpc fs/afs/ and merge everything
> through your tree.

Note that, unlike 9p, sunrpc and ceph, rxrpc is exposed as a network protocol
and can be used directly with socket(AF_RXRPC, ...).  I have part of a
userspace tool suite that uses this.

David