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From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: IFLA_INET6_[ICMP6]STATS
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 17:45:28 -0400
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On (09/09/15 14:43), David Miller wrote:
> 
> But what we could do is add a flag in the netlink request which
> elides the stats.  GLIBC et al. could then start setting the flag.
> 

Yes, interestingly that's what I was experimenting with myself 
(though I was using a setsockopt in my version). I'll send out 
a patch rfc later this week for this.

--Sowmini