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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/2] socket statistics for ss
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 10:18:23 -0700
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On 05/09/2018 08:22 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> I am not sure if these patches are worth applying.
> The 'ss -s' command has had missing values since 2.4 kernel.
> And the first complaints came in only this year.
> 
> Another alternative would be just to remove these fields from ss -s
> output and move on.
> 

Anyway your patches are not netns ready, so lets remove these fields from ss.

Or you have to spend _much_ more time on writing and testing the kernel part.

Thanks.