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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Phonet: sockets list through proc_fs
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:31:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A64478D.9030008@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1248085261.4549.103.camel@violet>

Marcel Holtmann a écrit :
> Hi Remi,
> 
>>>>>> From: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
>>>>> isn't there are proper explaining commit message missing here?
>>>> AFAIK, a one-liners stick to the Subject line.
>>>>
>>>> (I use explicit From: due to my broken Microsoft-provided MTA).
>>> the From: is not the problem here. However it would be nice to have a
>>> description of the change. Especially details like this is for debugging
>>> or this is a public API or etc.
>> It's just like most network protocols exposing their sockets list in 
>> /proc/net. Debugging/monitoring indeed.
> 
> I think that for new protocols, we should not do this anymore and just
> use debugfs. Since that is exactly its job.

netstat uses /proc/net

iproute2 uses netlink

Now you suggest adding debugfs support ?

What a mess...


  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-20 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-20  8:34 [PATCH] Phonet: sockets list through proc_fs Rémi Denis-Courmont
2009-07-20  8:36 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-07-20  9:28   ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2009-07-20  9:34     ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-07-20  9:47       ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2009-07-20 10:21         ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-07-20 10:31           ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2009-08-03  2:42             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2009-07-20 10:32           ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2009-07-20 10:43             ` David Miller
2009-07-20 12:07               ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-07-20 12:49                 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2009-07-20 13:00                   ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-07-20 14:09                     ` David Miller
2009-07-20 14:25                       ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-07-20 14:05                 ` David Miller
2009-07-20  9:05 ` Eric Dumazet
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-07-21 11:57 Rémi Denis-Courmont
2009-07-21 19:34 ` David Miller
2009-08-12 11:02   ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2009-08-12 18:06     ` David Miller

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