[PATCH] netdev: re-expose net_device_stats to user headers

Stephen Hemminger
2010-08-23T15:33:01Z

This commit broke iproute2 build:

commit be1f3c2c027cc5ad735df6a45a542ed1db7ec48b
Author: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Tue Jun 8 07:19:54 2010 +0000

net: Enable 64-bit net device statistics on 32-bit architectures

Use struct rtnl_link_stats64 as the statistics structure.

Iproute2 uses a the kernel exported headers, and the structure
net_device_stats which is part of the netlink IFLA_STATS message
was no longer exposed.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
---
This patch needs to be applied to net-2.6 (2.6.36)

--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h 2010-08-23 08:22:17.801906612 -0700
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h 2010-08-23 08:25:23.502078638 -0700
@@ -165,6 +165,8 @@ static inline bool dev_xmit_complete(int
#define MAX_HEADER (LL_MAX_HEADER + 48)
#endif

+#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
+
/*
* Old network device statistics. Fields are native words
* (unsigned long) so they can be read and written atomically.
@@ -196,9 +198,6 @@ struct net_device_stats {
unsigned long tx_compressed;
};

-#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
-
-
/* Media selection options. */
enum {
IF_PORT_UNKNOWN = 0,