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From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next-2.6 v2] bonding: allow resetting slave failure
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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 22:08:55 +0200
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Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 09:23:11PM CEST, nicolas.2p.debian@gmail.com wrote=
:
>Le 01/06/2011 18:31, Jiri Pirko a =E9crit :
>>This patch allows to reset failure counters for all enslaved devices.
>
>Hi Jiri,
>
>Why do we need a way to reset those counters? What is the problem
>with having those counters monotonically increase until the system is
>rebooted? Do we have a way to reset other network statistics
>(/sys/class/net/eth0/statistics/* for example)?

Well, it's handy to be able to clear this counters when you resolve
a problem so future issues are crearly seen as non-zero.				  =20
				  =20
>
>Except from this "do we need this feature" question, the code sounds g=
ood to me.
>
>Reviewed-by: Nicolas de Peslo=FCan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
>
>	Nicolas.