From: Jeff Garzik <hidden> Date: 2004-02-18 23:19:20
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Stephen Hemminger wrote:
Do it right:
* use per-cpu long long for both bytes and packet counts
and change each driver ...
* expose both a new 64 bit and legacy 32 bit /proc interface
* no tools use /sys yet, so that needs to show long long
* have both a get_stats and get_stats64 hook in netdevice so not all drivers
have to be converted at once.