netdev - Re: [patch net-next-2.6 v2] bonding: allow resetting slave failure counters

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Message-ID: <20110601200854.GD2784@psychotron.redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 1 Jun 2011 22:08:55 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
To:	Nicolas de Pesloüan 
	<nicolas.2p.debian@...il.com>
Cc:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>, Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, andy@...yhouse.net
Subject: Re: [patch net-next-2.6 v2] bonding: allow resetting slave failure
 counters

Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 09:23:11PM CEST, nicolas.2p.debian@...il.com wrote:
>Le 01/06/2011 18:31, Jiri Pirko a écrit :
>>This patch allows to reset failure counters for all enslaved devices.
>
>Hi Jiri,
>
>Why do we need a way to reset those counters? What is the problem
>with having those counters monotonically increase until the system is
>rebooted? Do we have a way to reset other network statistics
>(/sys/class/net/eth0/statistics/* for example)?

Well, it's handy to be able to clear this counters when you resolve
a problem so future issues are crearly seen as non-zero.				   
				   
>
>Except from this "do we need this feature" question, the code sounds good to me.
>
>Reviewed-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@...e.fr>
>
>	Nicolas.
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