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

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Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:14:55 +0200
From:	"Norman Rasmussen" <norman@...mussen.co.za>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iproute2 showing wrong number of bytes on 64bit architectures.

re: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=118415534518953
(please cc me on replies)

On 2007-07-11 Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> c) take the more painful route of switching over to 64bit statistics in
> netlink. Add 64bit interface, port userspace tools, deprecate the old 32bit
> interface. (I guess exporting as u64 even on 32bit architectures wouldn't
> hurt them, even if they still will rollover at (unsigned long) 32 bits.)

I youthfully opened a ticket here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12425 to track the
implementation for this feature request.

Is there someone more qualified than me to add support for 64 bit
device counters, or is this something I should try and hack together
in a UML and submit a patch?

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