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

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Message-ID: <20110601202748.GE2784@psychotron.redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 1 Jun 2011 22:27:49 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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

Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:12:43PM CEST, davem@...emloft.net wrote:
>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.
>

Well technically this is not netdev counter directly. But fair enough.

Thanks.

Jirka
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