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

Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:12:43PM CEST, davem@davemloft.net wrote:

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

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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.

Well technically this is not netdev counter directly. But fair enough.

Thanks.

Jirka