From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamal Hadi Salim Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 net-next] ifstat: move to new RTM_GETSTATS api Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 06:21:20 -0400 Message-ID: <57248720.8060001@mojatatu.com> References: <1461998511-24193-1-git-send-email-roopa@cumulusnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, tgraf@suug.ch, nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com To: Roopa Prabhu , stephen@networkplumber.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-qk0-f181.google.com ([209.85.220.181]:35069 "EHLO mail-qk0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751357AbcD3KVb (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Apr 2016 06:21:31 -0400 Received: by mail-qk0-f181.google.com with SMTP id q76so49390580qke.2 for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 03:21:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1461998511-24193-1-git-send-email-roopa@cumulusnetworks.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 16-04-30 02:41 AM, Roopa Prabhu wrote: > From: Roopa Prabhu > > This patch modifies ifstat to use the new RTM_GETSTATS api > to query stats from the kernel. In the process this also > moves ifstat to use 64 bit stats. Breaks old kernels? May need to keep backward compat of RTM_NEWLINK and even new main struct for GETSTATS. cheers, jamal