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

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Message-ID: <CAG3TDc0kq9Swx6K443k9zsG+JniBXmNq9xfhuSpDmqOn0HDW2g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 27 Jan 2019 23:35:06 -0800
From:   peng yu <yupeng0921@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:     Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] remove TWKilled counter

Hi, David and Cong

I don't quite understand where this patch to go. This patch wants to
delete the LINUX_MIB_TIMEWAITKILLED counter. Moving snmp.h out of the
uapi directory is a difference thing. Do we really need to do it?

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:58 PM Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
>
> 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.