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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] ether: don't mark input multicast for
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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:52:24 +0100
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2015-11-05 17:04, Stephen Hemminger:
> The number of received multicast frames is useful and already
> available in many/most drivers. Therefore don't mark it as
> deprecated.

There are other useful stats in xstats.
The idea of this basic stats structure is to provide only
the really mandatory and basic counters.
A multicast counter is not so basic and won't be implemented everywhere.

This patch won't be applied.
We'll need a consensus to definitively remove the deprecated stats.