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

Thanks, Dave. When I created the patch, I was concern about this.
I will change the MIBs counters to 'u32' or 'u64'.

Thanks
Shirley Ma
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"David S. Miller" [off-list ref] on 12/05/2003 12:31:33 PM

To:    mashirle@us.ltcfwd.linux.ibm.com
cc:    kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, netdev@oss.sgi.com, Shirley
       Ma/Beaverton/IBM@IBMUS
Subject:    Re: [PATCH]snmp6 64-bit counter support in proc.c


On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:14:47 -0800
Shirley Ma [off-list ref] 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.