From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jengelh@medozas.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: core: add IFLA_STATS64 support
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:44:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100311154456.24bde0ac@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100311.151529.16498686.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:15:29 -0800 (PST)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:10:50 -0800
>
> > 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.
>
> How about we just make userland ready for it and:
>
> 1) Emitting it now will get it tested even on 32-bit
>
> 2) They'll be ready when the drivers can keep track of
> 64-bit stats too.
>
> Stephen I've heard your side of the story, I just don't
> agree with it :-)
I'm okay with it. just raising the issue.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-11 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-11 19:57 [net-next] IFLA_STATS64, tcp cong modules Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-11 19:57 ` [PATCH 1/3] net: tcp: make hybla selectable as default congestion module Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-11 20:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-03-11 20:19 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-17 4:29 ` David Miller
2010-03-11 19:57 ` [PATCH 2/3] net: tcp: make veno " Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-17 4:29 ` David Miller
2010-03-11 19:57 ` [PATCH 3/3] net: core: add IFLA_STATS64 support Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-11 20:12 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-03-11 20:26 ` David Miller
2010-03-11 21:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-11 21:30 ` David Miller
2010-03-11 22:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-03-11 22:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-11 22:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-03-11 22:54 ` David Miller
2010-03-11 23:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-03-11 23:15 ` David Miller
2010-03-11 23:44 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-03-11 22:13 ` David Miller
2010-03-11 22:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-11 20:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-03-17 4:29 ` David Miller
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