From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: shemminger@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iproute2 showing wrong number of bytes on 64bit architectures.
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:17:12 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4693CD28.5070402@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070710.110545.112620737.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
> It used unsigned long ages ago, and ifconfig gets the bits
> exported from /proc/net/dev output whereas we have to used
> fixed data types in whatever we use over netlink so u32
> was choosen.
It's rather ironic that the "new-and-improved" way of doing things is
subject to rollover while the "old" way is not.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-10 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-10 15:56 Fw: iproute2 showing wrong number of bytes on 64bit architectures Stephen Hemminger
2007-07-10 18:05 ` David Miller
2007-07-10 18:17 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2007-07-10 18:36 ` David Miller
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2007-07-11 11:50 Andreas Henriksson
2009-01-13 14:14 Norman Rasmussen
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