netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] snmp6: fix title of IPSTATS_MIB

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Date:	Fri, 31 May 2013 08:13:56 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] snmp6: fix title of IPSTATS_MIB_CSUMERRORS

On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 15:32 +0200, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> Follow the same convention than other fields, prefix this stat by 'Ip6'.
> 
> Spotted-by: Fujie Zhao <fujie.zhao@...nd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
> ---
> 
> In fact, I wonder if we cannot simply remove this stat for IPv6: there is no
> checksum in IPv6, so it will always be 0 (and in fact, this stats is only
> increased in net/ipv4/ip_input.c).

You could put this line in a comment, so that a future reader knows why
we do have a hole.


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