netdev - Re: [PATCH v6 net-next] net-core: add InMacErrors counter

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Date:   Thu, 3 Feb 2022 11:35:22 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Brian Vazquez <brianvv@...gle.com>
Cc:     Jeffrey Ji <jeffreyjilinux@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        jeffreyji <jeffreyji@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 net-next] net-core: add InMacErrors counter

On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 10:05:17 -0800 Brian Vazquez wrote:
> > If everyone disagrees - should we at least rename the MIB counter
> > similarly to the drop reason? Experience shows that users call for
> > help when they see counters with Error in their name, I'd vote for
> > IpExtInDropOtherhost or some such. The statistic should also be
> > documented in Documentation/networking/snmp_counter.rst  
> 
> Changing the Name to IpExtInDropOtherhost and adding the documentation
> makes sense to me. What do others think? I'd like to get more feedback
> before Jeffrey sends another version.

I'm not sure we reached the "everyone disagrees with me" point at least
not yet ;)