From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753422AbbAMSeo (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2015 13:34:44 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:49666 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752769AbbAMSen (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2015 13:34:43 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:34:41 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Kiran Raparthy Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mike Chan , Arnd Bergmann , "David S. Miller" , Alexey Kuznetsov , James Morris , Hideaki YOSHIFUJI , Patrick McHardy , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Android Kernel Team , John Stultz , Sumit Semwal , JP Abgrall , Arve =?utf-8?B?SGrvv71ubmV277+9Zw==?= Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] misc: uidstat: Add uid stat driver to collect network statistics. Message-ID: <20150113183441.GA24908@kroah.com> References: <1421147642-28360-1-git-send-email-kiran.kumar@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1421147642-28360-1-git-send-email-kiran.kumar@linaro.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 04:44:01PM +0530, Kiran Raparthy wrote: > From: Mike Chan > > misc: uidstat: Add uid stat driver to collect network statistics. > > To analyze application's network statistics, we need a mechanism to export > the UID based statistics to userspace so that userspace tools can use the > exported numbers and generate the report against the UID. > > This patch allows the user to explore the UID based network statistics > exported to /proc/uid_stat. This is a joke, right? It's not April 1 yet people, why send this in January? confused, greg k-h