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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] mpls: packet stats
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 10:41:15 -0500 (EST)
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Statistics not provided via netlink are useless in real installations.

In fact I would say to forego the proc interface entirely, it's a second
class citizen for statistics gathering and has a non-triviel per-device
cost for instantiation.