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Message-ID: <4CACEADA.70009@ans.pl> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:32:10 +0200 From: Krzysztof Olędzki <ole@....pl> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> CC: fubar@...ibm.com, bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/3] bonding: add Speed/Duplex information to /proc/net/bonding/bond On 2010-10-06 23:24, David Miller wrote: > From: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@....pl> > Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:19:04 +0200 > >> Subject: bonding: add Speed/Duplex information to /proc/net/bonding/bond* >> >> Effect: >> Slave Interface: eth5 >> MII Status: up >> Speed: 10000 Mbps >> Duplex: full >> Link Failure Count: 0 >> Permanent HW addr: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX >> Slave queue ID: 0 >> >> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@....pl> > > Changing the layout of a procfs file is pretty much always unsafe. > > Some useland program somewhere depends upon the current layout, and > therefore very likely could break if we change the contents. > > We really can't apply a patch like this. A most portable and > extensible interface (netlink, ethtool) should be used to provide this > information to userspace. Sure, no problem. Please note however that this procfs file was recently changed ("Slave queue ID" was added) so if this is indeed a problem than we would already heard about this. Best regards, Krzysztof Olędzki -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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