From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@nvidia.com>,
Stephen Suryaputra <ssuryaextr@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipmr: ip6mr: Add ability to display non default caches and vifs
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:04:12 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44c43842-2e5a-4e20-b2e6-9f2f2ae6cf0f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e7a1828a-d5bf-fa88-1798-1d77f9875189@nvidia.com>
On 8/18/21 5:12 PM, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> I do not. You can already use netlink to dump any table, I don't see any point
> in making those available via /proc, it's not a precedent. We have a ton of other
> (almost any) information already exported via netlink without any need for /proc,
> there really is no argument to add this new support.
agreed. From a routing perspective /proc files are very limiting. You
really need to be using netlink and table dumps. iproute2 and kernel
infra exist to efficiently request the dump of a specific table. What is
missing beyond that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-19 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-18 20:09 [PATCH net-next] ipmr: ip6mr: Add ability to display non default caches and vifs Stephen Suryaputra
2021-08-18 22:37 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2021-08-18 22:50 ` Stephen Suryaputra
2021-08-18 23:09 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-08-18 23:12 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2021-08-19 0:04 ` David Ahern [this message]
2021-09-20 23:49 ` Stephen Suryaputra
2021-09-21 7:43 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
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