netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/14] Use net_device_stats from struct net

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Message-Id: <20170407.070650.1416475585266262678.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 07 Apr 2017 07:06:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     tklauser@...tanz.ch
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/14] Use net_device_stats from struct
 net_device

From: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
Date: Fri,  7 Apr 2017 10:17:25 +0200

> Along the lines of previous patches, switch (almost) all remaining net
> drivers to use net_device_stats from net_device instead of including a
> copy of it in their netdev_priv struct.

I'll apply this series because it moves things in a positive direction,
but yeah these drivers should in the long term use the 64-bit link stats
which overflow less often.