netdev - Re: [PATCH v4] net-netlink: Add a new attribute to expose TOS values via netlink

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Message-ID: <20111012120844.64568ff2@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
Date:	Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:08:44 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Muraliraja Muniraju <muralira@...gle.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] net-netlink: Add a new attribute to expose TOS
 values via netlink

On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:00:35 -0700
Muraliraja Muniraju <muralira@...gle.com> wrote:

> From: Murali Raja <muralira@...gle.com>
> 
> This patch exposes the tos value for the TCP sockets when the TOS flag
> is requested in the ext_flags for the inet_diag request. This would mainly be
> used to expose TOS values for both for TCP and UDP sockets. Currently it is
> supported for TCP. When netlink support for UDP would be added the support
> to expose the TOS values would alse be done. For IPV4 tos value is exposed
> and for IPV6 tclass value is exposed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Murali Raja <muralira@...gle.com>
> ---
> Changelog since v3:
> - Removed the tos structure from the inet_diag.h
> 
> Changelog since v2:
> - Added support for IPv6 and used better API.
> 
> Changelog since v3:
> - Removed reserved fields.


After this is accepted; it is trivial to add support to ss command.

Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
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