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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] net: make ndo_get_stats64 a void
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Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2017 18:14:04 -0500 (EST)
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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Fri,  6 Jan 2017 19:12:52 -0800

> The network device operation for reading statistics is only called
> in one place, and it ignores the return value. Having a structure
> return value is potentially confusing because some future driver could
> incorrectly assume that the return value was used.
> 
> Fix all drivers with ndo_get_stats64 to have a void function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>

Applied.