David S. Miller wrote:
You gain nothing from this patch, just put it into your drivers.
I am not writing drivers, I'm trying to write code that works with
everything that looks remotely like an ethernet device. Thus,
I can make this one change and work with ALL drivers, and not have
to corrupt every friggin driver under the sun.
And yes, I realize this patch is not adding a new ioctl..that is the
whole point.
Your patch is even more useless than I thought it was going to
be. :-)
I really hope you mis-understood it :)
Note it allows me to get a binary representation of the net_device_stats
w/out having to parse /proc/net/dev or figure out the vast complexity
of libnetlink.
I have plenty of other things that are currently new ioctls that could
be handled the same, and thus I could continue to avoid issues with
other platforms.
Ben
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