From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: iproute2 showing wrong number of bytes on 64bit architectures. Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:36:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070710.113612.51855247.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20070710085640.128311d1@freepuppy.rosehill.hemminger.net> <20070710.110545.112620737.davem@davemloft.net> <4693CD28.5070402@nortel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shemminger@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: cfriesen@nortel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:51724 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763771AbXGJSft (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:35:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4693CD28.5070402@nortel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: "Chris Friesen" Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:17:12 -0600 > It's rather ironic that the "new-and-improved" way of doing things is > subject to rollover while the "old" way is not. Text is always more flexible, but is hard to extend. We can trivially add "u64" statistics to netlink.