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Re: [TCP] Modular IPv6 support in tcpdiag

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [TCP] Modular IPv6 support in tcpdiag
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 07:43:21 +1100
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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.

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