netdev - Re: [NET]: Get rid of NETIF_F_INTERNAL

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Date:	Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:19:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jgarzik@...ox.com
Subject: Re: [NET]: Get rid of NETIF_F_INTERNAL_STATS

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:23:17 +1000

> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:15:51PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > 
> > Actually, I did this precisely because I really didn't want to start
> > exposing bogus stats in /proc/net/dev.  An audit might clarify if this
> > is an actual issue.
> 
> Fair enough.  Still returning zeros when get_stats isn't available
> would seem safe enough.  I wasn't able to find any drivers which
> didn't have get_stats.

Given this, I'll drop Herbert's patch for now.

Let me know if I should apply something, in fact send it to me :)
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