netdev - Re: [PATCH -next] sundance: Add initial ethtool stats support

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Date:	Sat, 9 Oct 2010 14:27:50 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@...nel.org>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] sundance: Add initial ethtool stats support

Denis Kirjanov wrote:
> Add initial ethtool statistics support 
[...]
> +static void get_ethtool_stats(struct net_device *dev,
> +		struct ethtool_stats *stats, u64 *data)
> +{
> +	struct net_device_stats *netdev_stats = get_stats(dev);
> +	int i = 0;
> +
> +	data[i++] = netdev_stats->tx_packets;
> +	data[i++] = netdev_stats->tx_bytes;
> +	data[i++] = netdev_stats->rx_packets;
> +	data[i++] = netdev_stats->rx_bytes;
> +	data[i++] = netdev_stats->tx_errors;
> +	data[i++] = netdev_stats->tx_dropped;
> +	data[i++] = netdev_stats->rx_errors;
> +}
[...]

There is no point in adding ethtool stats that merely mirror the baseline
net device stats.

Ben.

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