From: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 06:27:41 -0400 > 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) Fair enough. -- 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
