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Date:	Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:44:53 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Junchang Wang <junchangwang@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: export netdev_stats_to_stats64

Le mardi 06 mars 2012 à 12:38 +0800, Junchang Wang a écrit :
> > Some drivers use internal netdev stats member to store part of their
> > stats, yet advertize ndo_get_stats64() to implement some 64bit fields.
> >
> > Allow them to use netdev_stats_to_stats64() helper to make the copy of
> > netdev stats before they compute their 64bit counters.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> 
> Hi Eric,
> And I think we can add a netdev_stats_add_to_stats64() helper to avoid
> following duplicate code. Is that acceptable? Thanks.
> 
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>                 stats->rx_packets += sstats->rx_packets;

Oops, I misread your mail, I was preparing other stuff, not an add()
helper. I dont think it would be that usefull (only bond AFAIK)




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