netdev - Re: [PATCH v7 net-next] net: systemport: Support 64bit statistics

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Date:   Thu, 3 Aug 2017 16:20:04 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        "Jianming.qiao" <jqiaoulk@...il.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 net-next] net: systemport: Support 64bit statistics

On 08/03/2017 04:16 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri,  4 Aug 2017 00:07:45 +0100
> "Jianming.qiao" <jqiaoulk@...il.com> wrote:
> 
>>  static const struct bcm_sysport_stats bcm_sysport_gstrings_stats[] = {
>>  	/* general stats */
>> -	STAT_NETDEV(rx_packets),
>> -	STAT_NETDEV(tx_packets),
>> -	STAT_NETDEV(rx_bytes),
>> -	STAT_NETDEV(tx_bytes),
>> +	STAT_NETDEV64(rx_packets),
>> +	STAT_NETDEV64(tx_packets),
>> +	STAT_NETDEV64(rx_bytes),
>> +	STAT_NETDEV64(tx_bytes),
>>  	STAT_NETDEV(rx_errors),
> 
> Please don't duplicate regular statistics (ie netdev) into ethtool.
> It is a needless duplication.

Agreed, but these are there already and this driver's ethtool::get_stats
is an user ABI of some sort, is not it?
-- 
Florian