netdev - Re: [PATCH] netdev: re-expose net_device

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Date:	Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:43:23 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev: re-expose net_device_stats to user headers

On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 08:32 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> This commit broke iproute2 build:
> 
> commit be1f3c2c027cc5ad735df6a45a542ed1db7ec48b
> Author: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> Date:   Tue Jun 8 07:19:54 2010 +0000
> 
>     net: Enable 64-bit net device statistics on 32-bit architectures
>     
>     Use struct rtnl_link_stats64 as the statistics structure.
> 
> Iproute2 uses a the kernel exported headers, and the structure
> net_device_stats which is part of the netlink IFLA_STATS message
> was no longer exposed.
[...]

This is not true; the kernel uses struct rtnl_link_stats for IFLA_STATS.
AFAICS the only reference to struct net_device_stats in iproute2 is:

misc/ifstat.c:51:#define MAXS (sizeof(struct net_device_stats)/sizeof(unsigned long))

This should be changed to refer to the structure that is actually used.

Ben.

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