Re: [PATCH] fib_trie: Add proc entry for next-hop exceptions

[Chris Rorvick]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:33 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Chris Rorvick <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 23:27:12 -0600
>
>> Exceptions are added to the FIB in response to ICMP redirects and to
>> account for PMTU, but there is little visibility into what the current
>> exceptions are.  Add a proc entry for listing the current next-hop
>> exceptions
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Procfs exportation of networking information is deprecated.
>
> New pieces of information should be provided via netlink.

Ah, OK.  So is the premise of this patch still interesting or am I
just ignorant?  It seems like knowing whether or not you're
accumulating a lot of exceptions is interesting and I could not figure
out how to do that.

Thanks for the feedback.

Regards,

Chris
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