From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
buytenh@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [NET]: Get rid of NETIF_F_INTERNAL_STATS
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:52:46 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070428055246.GA6172@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1177739161.30071.165.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 03:46:01PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> OK, I did a quick check, and the only one I could find was br_if.c which
> calls register_netdevice() and doesn't set get_stats. I don't think
> that zeroes in this case matters.
Thanks for following up on this Rusty!
Actually I just had a look at br_if.c and it seems that it does set
get_stats through br_dev_setup to br_dev_get_stats.
> ==
> Remove NETIF_F_INTERNAL_STATS: default to internal stats.
>
> Herbert Xu conviced me that a new flag was overkill; every driver
> currently overrides get_stats, so we might as well make the internal
> one the default. If someone did fail to set get_stats, they would now
> get all 0 stats instead of "No statistics available".
>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Looks good to me.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-28 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-11 7:56 [NET]: Get rid of NETIF_F_INTERNAL_STATS Herbert Xu
2007-04-11 12:15 ` Rusty Russell
2007-04-11 12:23 ` Herbert Xu
2007-04-13 23:19 ` David Miller
2007-04-28 5:46 ` Rusty Russell
2007-04-28 5:52 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2007-04-29 4:04 ` David Miller
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