From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] snmp: 64bit ipstats_mib for all arches
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:07:14 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C2A0C22.4010202@linux-ipv6.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1277819286.3531.555.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Hello.
Thank you for doing this work!
Eric Dumazet wrote:
> /proc/net/snmp and /proc/net/netstat expose SNMP counters.
>
> Width of these counters is either 32 or 64 bits, depending on the size
> of "unsigned long" in kernel.
>
> This means user program parsing these files must already be prepared to
> deal with 64bit values, regardless of user program being 32 or 64 bit.
Well, I'm rather not in favor of breaking user-space apps.
How about leaving legacy procfs as-is and fix netlink-side only?
--yoshfuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-29 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-24 16:47 [RFC net-next-2.6] snmp: ipstats_mib becomes u64 for all arches Eric Dumazet
2010-06-29 13:48 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] snmp: 64bit ipstats_mib " Eric Dumazet
2010-06-29 15:07 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki [this message]
2010-06-30 20:30 ` David Miller
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