On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 23:23:14 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:42:18 -0700
>
> > Thomas Graf wrote:
> > > -/* The struct should be in sync with struct net_device_stats */
> > > -struct rtnl_link_stats
> > > -{
> > > - __u32 rx_packets; /* total packets received */
> > > - __u32 tx_packets; /* total packets transmitted */
> > > - __u32 rx_bytes; /* total bytes received */
> > > - __u32 tx_bytes; /* total bytes transmitted */
> > >
> >
> > Make the packets and byte counts __u64 so if/when we extend net_device
> > stats to bigger
> > values, the message format doesn't have to change.
>
> It's an existing ABI that he is just moving from one place
> to another, we are not at liberty to change it's layout.
Yeah that makes sense, I thought it was a new interface.
--
Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"And in the Packet there writ down that doome"
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