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Message-ID: <1293511020.2928.105.camel@localhost> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 04:37:00 +0000 From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> To: Hans Ulli Kroll <ulli.kroll@...glemail.com> Cc: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>, gemini-board-dev@...ts.berlios.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Biedl <linux-kernel.bfrz@...chmal.in-ulm.de> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2] Gemini: Gigabit ethernet driver On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 20:21 +0100, Hans Ulli Kroll wrote: [...] > BTW: > > Why u64_stats ? > I see only a few driver are using u64_stats. > vlan, br_device and some intel driver > no gigabit driver for marvell devices uses u64_stats All new net drivers should implement 64-bit stats. net_device_stats is kept for backward compatibility because we couldn't change all the existing drivers at once (it's not a simple change for all of them). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- 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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