Re: [PATCH] network device statistic hooks

From: Serge E. Hallyn (hallyn@private)
Date: Wed Aug 25 2004 - 11:19:41 PDT


Quoting James Morris (jmorris@private):
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> 
> > Is this the generally accepted view?  My hope was that the fact
> > that these will not affect networking performance would make them
> > more acceptable.
> 
> We had hooks at similar levels initially and they were rejected for poking 
> too far into the stack (e.g. at the protocol or net device level).

I did feel a little dirty with the inet_* hooks, though even that seemed
generic enough to be fair.  Maybe I should see just how much I can do with
just the netdev hooks.



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