From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michele Baldessari Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:03:04 +0000 Subject: Re: Information about SCTP patch Message-Id: <20140722080304.GB7011@fante.int.rhx> List-Id: References: <20140627200644.GA9086@marquez.int.rhx> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kishan simha Cc: linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, prasad.padiyar@nsn.com, sumit.11.kumar@nsn.com Hi Kishan, On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 02:08:21PM +0530, kishan simha wrote: > We are trying to integrate this patch to a little older kernel 2.6.34.13. This is trivial as we've done so for RHEL 6.5 already. > Additionally we are planning to give a proc file interface to display the stats. > > I came across a review comment for your patch, where the proc solution > was rejected. > > Can you provide some information on why the solution was rejected ? It was preferred to do it via an API extension, similar to how Solaris does it. And, I believe, the /proc interface for these kind of things is discouraged. regards, Michele -- Michele Baldessari C2A5 9DA3 9961 4FFB E01B D0BC DDD4 DCCB 7515 5C6D