From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [NET] 64 bit byte counter for 2.6.3
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:17:59 -0500
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Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Do it right:
> 	* use per-cpu long long for both bytes and packet counts
> 	  and change each driver ...
> 	* expose both a new 64 bit and legacy 32 bit /proc interface
> 	* no tools use /sys yet, so that needs to show long long
> 	* have both a get_stats and get_stats64 hook in netdevice so not all drivers
> 	  have to be converted at once.


Yep.

	Jeff