From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net 1/2] sctp: add transport state in /proc/net/sctp/remaddr Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 18:55:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20141027.185545.551457974536550723.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1414093721-14921-1-git-send-email-michele@acksyn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org, vyasevich@gmail.com, nhorman@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, dborkman@redhat.com To: michele@acksyn.org Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:51629 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752423AbaJ0Wzr (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2014 18:55:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1414093721-14921-1-git-send-email-michele@acksyn.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Michele Baldessari Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 21:48:40 +0200 > It is often quite helpful to be able to know the state of a transport > outside of the application itself (for troubleshooting purposes or for > monitoring purposes). Add it under /proc/net/sctp/remaddr. > > Signed-off-by: Michele Baldessari You can't change the layout of procfs files, applications parse these files and any modification can potentially break such tools. Secondly, even if this change were acceptable, targetting this change at anything other than the net-next tree is not appropriate because it is a new feature.