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Message-Id: <20141027.185545.551457974536550723.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 18:55:45 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: michele@...syn.org Cc: linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, vyasevich@...il.com, nhorman@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, dborkman@...hat.com Subject: Re: [net 1/2] sctp: add transport state in /proc/net/sctp/remaddr From: Michele Baldessari <michele@...syn.org> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 21:48:40 +0200 > It is often quite helpful to be able to know the state of a transport > outside of the application itself (for troubleshooting purposes or for > monitoring purposes). Add it under /proc/net/sctp/remaddr. > > Signed-off-by: Michele Baldessari <michele@...syn.org> You can't change the layout of procfs files, applications parse these files and any modification can potentially break such tools. Secondly, even if this change were acceptable, targetting this change at anything other than the net-next tree is not appropriate because it is a new feature. -- 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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