On 2010-08-18 at 22:10:43 +0200, David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

From: Stephen Hemminger <redacted>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:33:04 -0700

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On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:04:24 +0200
Tobias Klauser [off-list ref] wrote:

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-	memset (&priv(dev)->stats, 0, sizeof (struct net_device_stats));
+	memset(&dev->stats, 0, sizeof(struct net_device_stats));

This is incorrect, just remove the memset.  The stats are initialized
when device is created.  The Linux device driver convention is to
keep stats when device is set down and brought back up; that is what
the majority of other drivers do.

Yep, both the ether1 and ether3 patch have this problem.  Looks
like we'll see v4 coming some :-)

Thanks a lot. I'll send another updated patch. Hope I get it right this
time :-)

AFAICS there are a few other network drivers having the same problem,
I'll send patches for those too.