Re: zerocopy changes in 3c59x.c

[Andrew Morton <andrewm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
> Andrew Morton writes:
>  > And why do we do this:
>  >
>  >             vp->stats.rx_compressed++;
>  >
>  > each time we send a frame with hardware checksum?  This is the
>  > transmit path, not the receive path.  It seems we're abusing
>  > some ppp-related stats here.  What's up?
> 
> Every zerocopy driver does this, rx_compressed counts HW csummed
> transmit packets, and tx_compressed counts transmit packets
> containing more than one buffer.

Thanks.  I can see that :)

But why do this, rather than create new accounting fields?  Let
me guess: short-term thing, intended to be removed, didn't want
to hack the userspace tools?