Re: [PATCH net-next] net: core: Expose number of link up/down transitions

[Jiri Pirko]

Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 12:06:57AM CET, f.faine...@gmail.com wrote:
>From: David Decotigny <de...@googlers.com>
>
>Expose the number of times the link has been going UP or DOWN, and
>update the "carrier_changes" counter to be the sum of these two events.
>While at it, also update the sysfs-class-net documentation to cover:
>carrier_changes (3.15), count_link_up (4.16) and count_link_down (4.16)
>
>Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <de...@googlers.com>

[...]


>@@ -161,6 +161,8 @@ enum {
>       IFLA_EVENT,
>       IFLA_NEW_NETNSID,
>       IFLA_IF_NETNSID,
>+      IFLA_COUNT_LINK_UP,
>+      IFLA_COUNT_LINK_DOWN,


        IFLA_LINK_UP_COUNT,
        IFLA_LINK_DOWN_COUNT,

would sound a bit nicer to me.

>       __IFLA_MAX
> };