[PATCH] Update the /proc/net/tcp documentation

[PATCH] Update the /proc/net/tcp documentation

[Jean Delvare]

* Say that this interface is deprecated.
* Update function name references to match the current code.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
---
Second version, updated based on Rick Jones' comments.

 Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.23-rc0.orig/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt	2007-10-15 10:12:39.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc0/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt	2007-10-15 19:11:57.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 This document describes the interfaces /proc/net/tcp and /proc/net/tcp6.
+Note that these interfaces are deprecated in favor of tcp_diag.
 
 These /proc interfaces provide information about currently active TCP 
-connections, and are implemented by tcp_get_info() in net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c and
-tcp6_get_info() in net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c, respectively.
+connections, and are implemented by tcp4_seq_show() in net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+and tcp6_seq_show() in net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c, respectively.
 
 It will first list all listening TCP sockets, and next list all established
 TCP connections. A typical entry of /proc/net/tcp would look like this (split 


-- 
Jean Delvare

Re: [PATCH] Update the /proc/net/tcp documentation

[David Miller]

From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:15:07 +0200

> * Say that this interface is deprecated.
> * Update function name references to match the current code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

Applied, thanks!