netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] alx: add stats to ethtool

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Date:	Mon, 06 Jan 2014 16:16:31 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, bhutchings@...arflare.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] alx: add stats to ethtool

On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 15:56 +0100, Sabrina Dubroca wrote:

> > I was more worried about type mismatches. That's not really a concern
> > with u64 since that's the largest type that really makes sense here, but
> > if the type of some variables changed vs. the ethtool type u64...
> 
> Add "all stats fields must be u64" to the comment before the struct?

I guess that's OK. I can live with either of these solutions really, I
have no plans to change this driver ever again (though I might need WOL
soon ... *sigh*)

johannes

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