Re: [PATCH]snmp6 64-bit counter support in proc.c

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:14:47 -0800
Shirley Ma <mashirle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I add this because there are some 64-bit counters in the new IPv6 MIBs. 
> This patch has been tested agaist linux-2.6.0-test9, and cleanly applied to 
> linux-2.6.0-test11.

"sizeof(unsigned long)" evaluates to 8 on 64-bit systems,
yet you assume it always evaluated to 4 as on 32-bit systems.

Maybe it would be wiser to explicitly use 'u32' and 'u64' for
the types of the snmp counters?

This has always been a sore area.