netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: make ip_tunnel_get_stats64 an alias for dev_get

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Message-ID: <20201102133750.0d981073@kicinski-fedora-PC1C0HJN.hsd1.ca.comcast.net>
Date:   Mon, 2 Nov 2020 13:37:50 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: make ip_tunnel_get_stats64 an alias
 for dev_get_tstats64

On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 13:35:14 +0100 Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> ip_tunnel_get_stats64() now is a duplicate of dev_get_tstats64().
> Make it an alias so that we don't have to change all users of
> ip_tunnel_get_stats64().

Why would we not change all the users?  It's just an ndo pointer.