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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: per-socket statistics on received/dropped packets
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:21:08 -0700 (PDT)
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Your idea is totally useless for non-datagram sockets.
Only datagram sockets use the interfaces where you bump
the counters.

I don't like the patch, nor the idea behind it, at all.