netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] remove TWKilled counter

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Message-ID: <CAM_iQpU5x=g+VQ7WODWskv2V184rdvxL_4WKzpwf7po_QK7m7w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 22 Jan 2019 22:58:13 -0800
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     peng yu <yupeng0921@...il.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] remove TWKilled counter

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 3:14 PM peng yu <yupeng0921@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, I think the snmp.h didn't try to keep user-space compatibility,
> so we could delete  LINUX_MIB_TIMEWAITKILLED counter. Do I
> misunderstand anything?

I don't know. Maybe user-space doesn't need these definitions at all,
as like nstat can figure out the values from /proc/net/netstat. It looks
like we either could just kill snmp.h or we have to keep it for backward
compatibility.