From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:56:40 -0700

> Looks like net_device_stats should have always used u32?

It used unsigned long ages ago, and ifconfig gets the bits
exported from /proc/net/dev output whereas we have to used
fixed data types in whatever we use over netlink so u32
was choosen.
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