Re: [PATCH net-next v4 6/8] forcedeth: account for dropped RX frames

From: David Decotigny
Date: Tue Nov 15 2011 - 17:35:28 EST


Hello,

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Stephen Hemminger
<shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There is already an rx_dropped statistic in netdevice structure,
> why do you need your own in ethtool?

Sorry, I think my commit message was (once again) inaccurate. This
commit doesn't really "add" the stat, instead it adds code to update
the standard stats (struct rtnl_link_stats64).

Regards,
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