On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 06:55:45PM -0400, David Miller wrote: > From: Michele Baldessari <michele@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 21:48:40 +0200 > > > It is often quite helpful to be able to know the state of a transport > > outside of the application itself (for troubleshooting purposes or for > > monitoring purposes). Add it under /proc/net/sctp/remaddr. > > > > Signed-off-by: Michele Baldessari <michele@xxxxxxxxxx> > > You can't change the layout of procfs files, applications parse > these files and any modification can potentially break such tools. > > Secondly, even if this change were acceptable, targetting this > change at anything other than the net-next tree is not appropriate > because it is a new feature. > Agree on the net-next submission, though there is precident for extending this procfile, as we've done it a few times in the past to this, and other files in the sctp area (see commits f406c8b9693f2f71ef2caeb0b68521a7d22d00f0 and 58fbbed4fbc0094fc808a568fe99a915f85402ee) Neil -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
