netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: ipv4: add IPPROTO

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Message-ID: <20110522174412.2F0C.0@paddy.troja.mff.cuni.cz>
Date:	Sun, 22 May 2011 18:01:31 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Pavel Kankovsky <peak@...o.troja.mff.cuni.cz>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>,
	Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ipv4: add IPPROTO_ICMP socket kind

On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> Also, there was big discussion re exposing kernel socket pointers,
> which this file continue to do.

One late comment:

The code was intented to immitate /proc/net/udp.

As far as I can tell UDP and TCP (having checked udp.c and tcp_ipv[46].c
in the latest net-next-2.6) do not have any qualms about exposing kernel
pointers so we are a little bit holier than the pope here. :)

-- 
Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak                          / Jeremiah 9:21        \
"For death is come up into our MS Windows(tm)..." \ 21st century edition /

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