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Re: RFC/PATCH capture qdisc requeue event in stats

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Subject: Re: RFC/PATCH capture qdisc requeue event in stats
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:00:52 -0700
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On 30 Aug 2004 18:56:32 -0400
jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sounds reasonable to me. Some of the BSDs do this to maintain old compat
> - just means keeping old struct around. Steve, agreeable to you? 
> 
> Change to both kernel and user space or just user space?

But this takes care of 'tc' only.  What about other programs
grabbing TC_STATS?  The whole world of netlink is not the
iproute2 tree.

Maybe instead we should create TC_STATS2?  That's a lot of
work just to add this one new statistic, I must say.

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