From: Eric Dumazet <redacted>
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:13:51 +0100

Hmm we already did such expansion last year with commit 38938bfe when
Pablo Neira Ayuso added the Drops column

Extract of its Changelog :

 This patch also includes the use of sk_drop to account the number of
 netlink messages drop due to overrun. This value is shown in
 /proc/net/netlink.

So yes, some applications might break but they probably already broke
one year ago and their maintainers should know that adding new fields at
the end of lines is expected ?

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <redacted>

That's a good point.

Ok, I'll apply this.

Thanks.