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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: core: add IFLA_STATS64 support
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:10:50 -0800
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On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:54:12 -0800 (PST)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:50:59 -0800
> 
> > But if you send 32bit truncated values when 64 bit is expected
> > then users are going to complain
> 
> They already complain, a lot.
> 
> This isn't going to change the situation at all, and
> I agree with Jan that consistency is the trumping factor
> here.

But if non utilities will already adapt to new/old kernel, so
just don't put out 64 bit values if the platform is 32 bit.
When/if 32 bit platforms support it, great add the extra stats.

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