Re: [PATCH v2] ether1: Use net_device_stats from struct net_device

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

> On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:04:24 +0200
> Tobias Klauser <tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>  
>> -	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 :-)
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