From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [TCP] Modular IPv6 support in tcpdiag
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 12:41:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041103124103.13fe69d5.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041103204321.GA25470@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 07:43:21 +1100
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 12:29:41PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> >
> > > If I used that then it'll break when TCPDIAG is built-in and
> > > IPv6 is built as a module.
> >
> > I see, you need the ipv6 tcp socket lookup symbols... hmmm.
>
> Well it really should be turned into a plugin system. However,
> since any effort to do that might as well be spent doing a
> generic socket info interface, I thought that we should just
> patch up tcp_diag and mark it as obsolete once we have a new
> interface.
I've put your patch in for now, but I don't know what I think
about deprecating an interface that took so much effort to get
people to use over the /proc/net/tcp{,6} stuff.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-03 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-03 9:44 [TCP] Modular IPv6 support in tcpdiag Herbert Xu
2004-11-03 11:26 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-11-03 17:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-11-03 20:32 ` Herbert Xu
2004-11-03 20:20 ` David S. Miller
2004-11-03 20:34 ` Herbert Xu
2004-11-03 20:29 ` David S. Miller
2004-11-03 20:43 ` Herbert Xu
2004-11-03 20:41 ` David S. Miller [this message]
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