Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/3] bonding: add Speed/Duplex information to /proc/net/bonding/bond

From: Krzysztof Olędzki <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:32:10 +0200

On 2010-10-06 23:24, David Miller wrote:
> From: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:19:04 +0200
>
>> Subject: bonding: add Speed/Duplex information to /proc/net/bonding/bond*
>>
>> Effect:
>>   Slave Interface: eth5
>>   MII Status: up
>>   Speed: 10000 Mbps
>>   Duplex: full
>>   Link Failure Count: 0
>>   Permanent HW addr: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
>>   Slave queue ID: 0
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <[email-masked]>
>
> Changing the layout of a procfs file is pretty much always unsafe.
>
> Some useland program somewhere depends upon the current layout, and
> therefore very likely could break if we change the contents.
>
> We really can't apply a patch like this.  A most portable and
> extensible interface (netlink, ethtool) should be used to provide this
> information to userspace.

Sure, no problem.

Please note however that this procfs file was recently changed ("Slave 
queue ID" was added) so if this is indeed a problem than we would 
already heard about this.

Best regards,

			Krzysztof Olędzki