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

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Date:	Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:14:31 +0200
From:	Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, linux@....linux.org.uk,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, error27@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ether1: Use net_device_stats from struct net_device

On 2010-08-18 at 22:10:43 +0200, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:33:04 -0700
> 
> > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:04:24 +0200
> > Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch> wrote:
> > 
> >>  
> >> -	memset (&priv(dev)->stats, 0, sizeof (struct net_device_stats));
> >> +	memset(&dev->stats, 0, sizeof(struct net_device_stats));
> > 
> > This is incorrect, just remove the memset.  The stats are initialized
> > when device is created.  The Linux device driver convention is to
> > keep stats when device is set down and brought back up; that is what
> > the majority of other drivers do.
> 
> Yep, both the ether1 and ether3 patch have this problem.  Looks
> like we'll see v4 coming some :-)

Thanks a lot. I'll send another updated patch. Hope I get it right this
time :-)

AFAICS there are a few other network drivers having the same problem,
I'll send patches for those too.
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