From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: reminder, 2.6.18 window... Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 14:21:03 -0400 Message-ID: <1148494863.5325.28.camel@jzny2> References: <20060523.182217.59656237.davem@davemloft.net> <447412CA.50303@ipom.com> Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller Return-path: Received: from mx02.cybersurf.com ([209.197.145.105]:56981 "EHLO mx02.cybersurf.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932412AbWEXSVF (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2006 14:21:05 -0400 Received: from mail.cyberus.ca ([209.197.145.21]) by mx02.cybersurf.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Fixyn-00029G-Pi for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 24 May 2006 14:21:09 -0400 To: Phil Dibowitz In-Reply-To: <447412CA.50303@ipom.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2006-24-05 at 01:01 -0700, Phil Dibowitz wrote: [..] > > For your reference, here's the two times I've posted it this month - I'm > happy to send it along again. The problem with resetting stats is it is _most definetely_ going to break management apps like SNMP. This is not to say this is not useful for testing and at times debugging - but backward compat and not pissing off the standards whic count on this long standing feature is more important. So if you can make it work without breaking apps, it will be more palatable i am sure to both Dave and Jeff. I would go as far as suggest that you should allow for arbitrary setting (of which 0 is a speacial case). cheers, jamal