netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: bridge: add STP xstats

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Date:   Wed, 11 Dec 2019 13:41:33 -0500
From:   Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>
To:     Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Cc:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: bridge: add STP xstats

Hi David, Nikolay,

On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 17:42:33 +0200, Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com> wrote:
> >>  /* Bridge multicast database attributes
> >>   * [MDBA_MDB] = {
> >>   *     [MDBA_MDB_ENTRY] = {
> >> @@ -261,6 +270,7 @@ enum {
> >>  	BRIDGE_XSTATS_UNSPEC,
> >>  	BRIDGE_XSTATS_VLAN,
> >>  	BRIDGE_XSTATS_MCAST,
> >> +	BRIDGE_XSTATS_STP,
> >>  	BRIDGE_XSTATS_PAD,
> >>  	__BRIDGE_XSTATS_MAX
> >>  };
> > 
> > Shouldn't the new entry be appended to the end - after BRIDGE_XSTATS_PAD
> > 
> 
> Oh yes, good catch. That has to be fixed, too.
> 

This I don't get. Why new attributes must come between BRIDGE_XSTATS_PAD
and __BRIDGE_XSTATS_MAX?


Thanks,

	Vivien