netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] packet: Sock-diag extension for packet sockets (beginning)

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Date:	Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:56:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xemul@...allels.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] packet: Sock-diag extension for packet
 sockets (beginning)

From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:47:40 +0400

> There's a set of stuff residing on a AF_PACKET socket which is currently
> write-only -- rings, copy_thresh and mclist. But we need to know these
> while doing the checkpoint-restore.
> 
> As a solution for the similar problem with unix sockets, the sock-diag
> engine was developed, so here's the basic implementation of the packet
> sockets extension. It doesn't report rings, fanout and stats, but it can
> be easily added later.
> 
> I'd like to mention, that it's not a strict requirement, that the diag is
> used for getting info about sockets, it would be perfectly fine just to
> fix the packet getsockopt callback to return the desired info. So, if the
> diag for packet sockets is for any reason unacceptable, just let me know.

All applied, looks fine.

Please number your patches properly next time, patch #3 was listed as 2/4
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