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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 14:43:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: IFLA_INET6_[ICMP6]STATS
From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 17:34:44 -0400
> So the question is- who uses IFLA_INET6_STATS/IFLA_INET6_ICMP6STATS?
> Is this intended for some ND/ripngd etc daemon? Doesnt seem to
> be documented in rtnetlink(7), and couldnt find any users in glibc,
> and google did not find any usage.
It doesn't really matter who uses it, it's there forever and we
therefore can't remove it.
But what we could do is add a flag in the netlink request which
elides the stats. GLIBC et al. could then start setting the flag.
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