From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bhutchings@solarflare.com
Cc: ramirose@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about /proc/net/netlink mystery
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 20:54:40 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090520.205440.45091399.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1242849063.6618.64.camel@achroite>
From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 20:51:03 +0100
> On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 22:22 +0300, Rami Rosen wrote:
>> So it seems that the title should be here different; it should represent
>> the protocol (since s->sk_protocol is assigned
>> the number of the protocol of the netlink socket ;
>> for example, NETLINK_ROUTE is 0, NETLINK_AUDIT is 9, and so on ; (see
>> include/linux/netfilter.h)
>>
>> So shouldn't it be something like "Proto"?
>
> Yes, but changing column names in /proc risks breaking the programs that
> read them.
Indeed, it's odd, but like others I don't think we can change it
at this point.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-21 3:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-20 19:22 Question about /proc/net/netlink mystery Rami Rosen
2009-05-20 19:44 ` Neil Horman
2009-05-20 19:51 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-05-21 3:54 ` David Miller [this message]
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