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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	Serhey Popovych <serhe.popovych@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next 0/4] ip: Introduce and use helper to read /proc/net/dev
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 20:17:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <28c80e8a-8b96-1006-e092-5f97794372ff@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180131150444.439b9d20@xeon-e3>

On 1/31/18 4:04 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> /proc/net/dev is legacy and unextensible.
> 
> I would rather see netlink used everywhere and not /proc/net/dev or sysfs!
> 

agreed. ll_init_map is already called in some places so a device cache
already exists.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-01  3:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-31 19:49 [PATCH iproute2-next 0/4] ip: Introduce and use helper to read /proc/net/dev Serhey Popovych
2018-01-31 19:49 ` [PATCH iproute2-next 1/4] utils: Introduce do_each_proc_net_dev() helper Serhey Popovych
2018-01-31 19:49 ` [PATCH iproute2-next 2/4] iptunnel: Use do_each_proc_net_dev() Serhey Popovych
2018-01-31 19:49 ` [PATCH iproute2-next 3/4] ip6tunnel: " Serhey Popovych
2018-01-31 19:49 ` [PATCH iproute2-next 4/4] tuntap: " Serhey Popovych
2018-01-31 23:04 ` [PATCH iproute2-next 0/4] ip: Introduce and use helper to read /proc/net/dev Stephen Hemminger
2018-02-01  3:17   ` David Ahern [this message]
2018-02-01 19:49   ` Serhey Popovych

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