netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ipmr: ip6mr: Add ability to display non default caches and vifs

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Message-ID: <44c43842-2e5a-4e20-b2e6-9f2f2ae6cf0f@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:04:12 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...dia.com>,
        Stephen Suryaputra <ssuryaextr@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipmr: ip6mr: Add ability to display non default
 caches and vifs

On 8/18/21 5:12 PM, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> I do not. You can already use netlink to dump any table, I don't see any point
> in making those available via /proc, it's not a precedent. We have a ton of other
> (almost any) information already exported via netlink without any need for /proc,
> there really is no argument to add this new support.

agreed. From a routing perspective /proc files are very limiting. You
really need to be using netlink and table dumps. iproute2 and kernel
infra exist to efficiently request the dump of a specific table. What is
missing beyond that?