netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IPV4] UDP: Always checksum even if without socket filter

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Date:	Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:32:54 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	andi@...stfloor.org, wangchen@...fujitsu.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IPV4] UDP: Always checksum even if without socket
 filter

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:41:17 +0800

> On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 02:40:10PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> >
> > This can be fixed, the above cannot.
> 
> That's a good point.  Perhaps one way of getting that info to
> the user without putting it in UDPInDatagrams is to create an
> inet_diag interface for UDP and put the number of queued packets
> for each socket in it.

Right, if it's not what the RFC specifies, it's an auxiliary
statistic we can provide some other way.
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