From: "Jianming.qiao" <jqiao...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 00:07:45 +0100
> When using Broadcom Systemport device in 32bit Platform, ifconfig can > only report up to 4G tx,rx status, which will be wrapped to 0 when the > number of incoming or outgoing packets exceeds 4G, only taking > around 2 hours in busy network environment (such as streaming). > Therefore, it makes hard for network diagnostic tool to get reliable > statistical result, so the patch is used to add 64bit support for > Broadcom Systemport device in 32bit Platform. > > This patch provides 64bit statistics capability on both ethtool and ifconfig. > > Signed-off-by: Jianming.qiao <kiki-g...@hotmail.com> Applied, thanks.
