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On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 23:43 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> Add field in struct ieee80211_sub_if_data pointing to per-cpu
> net statistics. Using this instead of field in struct netdevice
> makes it easier to backport the functionality.

I don't like this either :)

I'll reply on the backports list with a more detailed analysis.

johannes