Re: iproute2 showing wrong number of bytes on 64bit architectures.

re: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=118415534518953
(please cc me on replies)

On 2007-07-11 Andreas Henriksson wrote:

c) take the more painful route of switching over to 64bit statistics in
netlink. Add 64bit interface, port userspace tools, deprecate the old 32bit
interface. (I guess exporting as u64 even on 32bit architectures wouldn't
hurt them, even if they still will rollover at (unsigned long) 32 bits.)

I youthfully opened a ticket here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12425 to track the
implementation for this feature request.

Is there someone more qualified than me to add support for 64 bit
device counters, or is this something I should try and hack together
in a UML and submit a patch?

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