On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 2:12 PM Willem de Bruijn
<willemdebruijn.ker...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jakub recently made stats behavior less ambiguous, in commit
> 0db0c34cfbc9 ("net: tighten the definition of interface statistics").
>
> That said, it's not entirely clear whether rx_dropped would be allowed
> to include rx_errors.
>
> My hunch is that it shouldn't. A quick scan of devices did quickly
> show at least one example where it does: macvlan. But I expect that to
> be an outlier.OK. Thanks for the information. > Please do always consider backward compatibility. In this case, I > don't think that the behavioral change is needed for the core of the > patch (changing control flow). OK. I'll drop the change about stats.rx_dropped. Thanks.
