netdev - Re: [PATCHv4] net: usbnet: support 64bit stats

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Date:   Mon, 03 Apr 2017 19:09:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     gerg@...ux-m68k.org
Cc:     bjorn@...k.no, oneukum@...e.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4] net: usbnet: support 64bit stats

From: Greg Ungerer <gerg@...ux-m68k.org>
Date: Mon,  3 Apr 2017 15:50:03 +1000

> Add support for the net stats64 counters to the usbnet core. With that
> in place put the hooks into every usbnet driver to use it.
> 
> This is a strait forward addition of 64bit counters for RX and TX packet
> and byte counts. It is done in the same style as for the other net drivers
> that support stats64. Note that the other stats fields remain as 32bit
> sized values (error counts, etc).
> 
> The motivation to add this is that it is not particularly difficult to
> get the RX and TX byte counts to wrap on 32bit platforms.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@...ux-m68k.org>

Applied, thank you.