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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tg3: fix return value in tg3_get_stats64
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:17:34 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_govind@gmx.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:04:56 +0530

> When tp->hw_stats is 0, tg3_get_stats64 should display previously
> recorded stats. So it returns &tp->net_stats_prev. But the caller,
> dev_get_stats, ignores the return value.
> 
> Fix this by assigning tp->net_stats_prev to stats and returning stats.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_govind@gmx.com>

Applied, but please target 'net' for bug fixes in the future.

Thanks.