netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2-next 0/4] ip: Introduce and use helper to read /proc/net/dev

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Date:   Wed, 31 Jan 2018 20:17:57 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Serhey Popovych <serhe.popovych@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next 0/4] ip: Introduce and use helper to read
 /proc/net/dev

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.