On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 09:32:59 +0100 Oleksij Rempel wrote: > Introduce a new helper function, `ethtool_stat_add`, to update 64-bit > statistics with proper handling of the reserved value > `ETHTOOL_STAT_NOT_SET`. This ensures that statistics remain valid and > are always reported to userspace, even if the driver accidentally sets > `ETHTOOL_STAT_NOT_SET` during an update. u64 can't wrap. If it could we should be using a wider type to count packets/bytes. I don't see the need for this, sorry for missing the discussion.