From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Sipek Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] watch64: generic variable monitoring system Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 11:53:44 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200409121153.52047.jeffpc@optonline.net> References: <200409031307.01240.jeffpc@optonline.net> <200409051219.47590.jeffpc@optonline.net> <1094460391.1151.26.camel@jzny.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Stephen Hemminger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: In-reply-to: <1094460391.1151.26.camel@jzny.localdomain> To: hadi@cyberus.ca Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, I missed your email. On Tuesday 07 September 2004 06:18, jamal wrote: > On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 12:19, Jeff Sipek wrote: > > There was a discussion about 64-bit network statistics about a year ago > > on lkml. > > Sorry unsubscribed from lkml since summer of '94. [net related > discussions should really happen on netdev]. netdev was CC'd during this whole discussion. > > watch64 is a generic so that anyone in the kernel can use it. > > Ok - so why does this have to be in the kernel? I think it is convenient to have the 64 bit net stats reported by the kernel. Jeff. - -- My public GPG key can be found at http://shells.gnugeneration.com/~jeffpc/gpg/public-0xC7958FFE.txt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBRHENwFP0+seVj/4RAuzcAKCdBAooPae8pTaMEHbWmVDKAO7C5ACeLi21 cen/Ag4bH5Dm9xkQiXj+d0Q= =BrV+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----