netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: hip04: Omit private ndo_get

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Date:   Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:38:58 +0100
From:   Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: hip04: Omit private ndo_get_stats function

On 2017-02-15 at 11:28:08 +0100, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-02-14 at 15:10 +0100, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> > hip04_get_stats() just returns dev->stats so we can leave it
> > out altogether and let dev_get_stats() do the job.
> 
> This could be done for at least a few more drivers:
> 
> drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb/sge.c

I don't see an .ndo_get_stats being defined/set in this file. AFAICT,
this driver sets .ndo_get_stats to t1_get_stats(), which does some
additional extraction of statistics from device registers and thus
shouldn't be removed.

> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgb/ixgb_main.c

Will cover these in follow-up patches, thanks.

> drivers/net/ethernet/oki-semi/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_main.c

A patch for pch_gbe already landed in net-next.