Re: [patch net-next-2.6 v2] bonding: allow resetting slave failure counters

From: Jiri Pirko <redacted>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 22:08:55 +0200

Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 09:23:11PM CEST, nicolas.2p.debian@gmail.com wrote:

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Le 01/06/2011 18:31, Jiri Pirko a écrit :

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This patch allows to reset failure counters for all enslaved devices.

Hi Jiri,

Why do we need a way to reset those counters? What is the problem
with having those counters monotonically increase until the system is
rebooted? Do we have a way to reset other network statistics
(/sys/class/net/eth0/statistics/* for example)?

Well, it's handy to be able to clear this counters when you resolve
a problem so future issues are crearly seen as non-zero.				   

We don't allow this in any way for netdev counters, for good reasons,
so please don't add things like this.