Re: [TCP] Modular IPv6 support in tcpdiag

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 07:43:21 +1100
Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 12:29:41PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> >
> > > If I used that then it'll break when TCPDIAG is built-in and
> > > IPv6 is built as a module.
> > 
> > I see, you need the ipv6 tcp socket lookup symbols... hmmm.
> 
> Well it really should be turned into a plugin system.  However,
> since any effort to do that might as well be spent doing a
> generic socket info interface, I thought that we should just
> patch up tcp_diag and mark it as obsolete once we have a new
> interface.

I've put your patch in for now, but I don't know what I think
about deprecating an interface that took so much effort to get
people to use over the /proc/net/tcp{,6} stuff.