Well, looking now at the patch again, I think you cannot add new fields
without breaking existing apps. My previous review stoped at this _BH thing
wihthout looking further :)
Also, it seems some RFC4293 items are already handled, since commit d831666e
from Mitsuru Chinen. Check net/ipv4/proc.c, line 114
/* Following RFC4293 items are displayed in /proc/net/netstat */
static const struct snmp_mib snmp4_ipextstats_list[] = {
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("InNoRoutes", IPSTATS_MIB_INNOROUTES),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("InTruncatedPkts", IPSTATS_MIB_INTRUNCATEDPKTS),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("InMcastPkts", IPSTATS_MIB_INMCASTPKTS),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("OutMcastPkts", IPSTATS_MIB_OUTMCASTPKTS),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("InBcastPkts", IPSTATS_MIB_INBCASTPKTS),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("OutBcastPkts", IPSTATS_MIB_OUTBCASTPKTS),
SNMP_MIB_SENTINEL
};
# grep IpExt /proc/net/netstat
IpExt: InNoRoutes InTruncatedPkts InMcastPkts OutMcastPkts InBcastPkts OutBcastPkts
IpExt: 0 0 0 0 5089 0
So you might add items after existing ones, in IpExt preferably, in order not
breaking old applications.
Thanks
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