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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Subject: Re: bonding inactive slaves vs rx_dropped
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:47:50 +0000
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On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 15:43 -0800, Jay Vosburgh wrote:
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
[...]
> >My general rule is that every special case increments a special
> >'absurdity' statistic counter for the code :-)
> 
> 	Gonna need a whole lot of those for bonding, then.  Maybe it
> should have its own ethtool -S stats to handle all of the
> bonding-internal absurdity.
[...]

Yes, I think it should.

Ben.

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