From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Chris Friesen" Subject: Re: iproute2 showing wrong number of bytes on 64bit architectures. Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:17:12 -0600 Message-ID: <4693CD28.5070402@nortel.com> References: <20070710085640.128311d1@freepuppy.rosehill.hemminger.net> <20070710.110545.112620737.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shemminger@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from zcars04f.nortel.com ([47.129.242.57]:37764 "EHLO zcars04f.nortel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751011AbXGJSbL (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:31:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070710.110545.112620737.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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