netdev - Re: [PATCHv2] net: usbnet: support 64bit stats in qmi

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Date:   Fri, 24 Mar 2017 07:17:50 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Greg Ungerer <gerg@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     bjorn@...k.no, oneukum@...e.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] net: usbnet: support 64bit stats in qmi_wwan driver

On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 15:42 +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:

> The usbnet core is used by a number of drivers. This patch only
> updates the qmi-wwan driver to use stats64. If you remove the
> dev->stats.rx_* updates all those other driver users will have
> no counts.

I see. Then I guess the u64 stuff could be done only if running 32bit
kernels. (The existing stats are using 'unsigned long' so are already
64bit wide on 64bit kernels)