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

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Message-Id: <20110601.131243.2063791013719464193.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:12:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jpirko@...hat.com
Cc:	nicolas.2p.debian@...il.com, fubar@...ibm.com, fbl@...hat.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, andy@...yhouse.net
Subject: Re: [patch net-next-2.6 v2] bonding: allow resetting slave failure
 counters

From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 22:08:55 +0200

> 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.				   

We don't allow this in any way for netdev counters, for good reasons,
so please don't add things like this.

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