netdev - Re: [PATCH net 4/4] net/mlx4_en: get rid of private net_device

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Date:	Thu, 26 May 2016 12:35:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ttoukan.linux@...il.com
Cc:	edumazet@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, willemb@...gle.com,
	eugenia@...lanox.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 4/4] net/mlx4_en: get rid of private
 net_device_stats

From: Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 12:38:58 +0300

> I am aware that clearing the stats structure might be redundant today,
> as the function is called only within mlx4_en_open, but we might want
> to call the function in other flows in the future.

You really should not arbitrarily clear the statistics, a down/up is not
supposed to rest them, for example.