netdev - Re: iproute2 showing wrong number of bytes on 64bit architectures.

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Message-Id: <20070710.110545.112620737.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:05:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iproute2 showing wrong number of bytes on 64bit architectures.

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:56:40 -0700

> Looks like net_device_stats should have always used u32?

It used unsigned long ages ago, and ifconfig gets the bits
exported from /proc/net/dev output whereas we have to used
fixed data types in whatever we use over netlink so u32
was choosen.
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