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The Linux networking developers have long held a strong opinion about
user-space protocol implementations: they should be avoided in favor of
making the in-kernel implementation better. So it might be surprising to
see a veteran networking developer post a patch set aimed at making
user-space implementations easier. A look at this patch and its
motivations shines an interesting light on changes that are taking place in
the networking world.