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Message-ID: <4693CD28.5070402@nortel.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:17:12 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> CC: shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: iproute2 showing wrong number of bytes on 64bit architectures. David Miller wrote: > 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. It's rather ironic that the "new-and-improved" way of doing things is subject to rollover while the "old" way is not. Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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