From: Stephen Hemminger <redacted>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:52:24 -0700

It would make sense to do it per-cpu and 64 bit for the non-error
counters.

Good point, but that's a seperate change.

I have no real objection to Rusty's change and if more than
one driver uses this thing it's useful, so I'll apply his
patch.