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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: netlink stats: Ability to get stats for a single device?
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:38:11 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:31:12 -0700

> Am I missing something, or do I just need to write up a patch
> to have netlink pay attention to the ifindex?

Setting the ->ifi_index or IFLA_IFNAME attribute values appropriately
in the getlink request doesn't work?

That should give you back, amonst other things, the rtnl_link_stats
for the device in the netlink response.