AW: sock_alloc() symbol removed in 2.6.10

From: Ralf Dauberschmidt
Date: Fri Jun 16 2006 - 15:43:39 EST


Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> what driver are you looking at that wants to use it?

At university we are currently porting a project from a 2.4 series kernel to
a recent 2.6 series kernel. This project uses the sock_alloc() function.


Stephen Smalley wrote:
> Also, it would be better to use sock_create_lite() to ensure proper
> handling by the security subsystem. See:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git-commits-head&m=108407590404054&w=2

Thanks for the hint, I will use sock_create_lite() instead.


Regards,
Ralf Dauberschmidt

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