netdev - Re: Adding inode field to /proc/net/netlink

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Message-Id: <20100228.012834.15245196.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:28:34 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	yamato@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adding inode field to /proc/net/netlink

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:13:51 +0100

> Hmm we already did such expansion last year with commit 38938bfe when
> Pablo Neira Ayuso added the Drops column
> 
> Extract of its Changelog :
> 
>  This patch also includes the use of sk_drop to account the number of
>  netlink messages drop due to overrun. This value is shown in
>  /proc/net/netlink.
> 
> So yes, some applications might break but they probably already broke
> one year ago and their maintainers should know that adding new fields at
> the end of lines is expected ?
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

That's a good point.

Ok, I'll apply this.

Thanks.
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