netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] ether1: Use net_device_stats from struct net

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Date:	Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:27:53 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ether1: Use net_device_stats from struct net_device

Le mercredi 18 août 2010 à 09:13 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux a
écrit :
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 09:04:24AM +0200, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> > @@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ ether1_close (struct net_device *dev)
> >  static struct net_device_stats *
> >  ether1_getstats (struct net_device *dev)
> >  {
> > -	return &priv(dev)->stats;
> > +	return &dev->stats;
> >  }
> 
> Doesn't the core do this for you already if you omit this function?
> 
> Same comment for ether3.c

Yes, thats right, no need to declare ndo_get_stats() methods that only
returns &dev->stats



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