From: Stephen Suryaputra <ssuryae...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:52:43 -0400
> This is enhanced from the proposed patch by Igor Maravic in 2011 to > support per interface IPv4 stats. The enhancement is mainly adding a > kernel configuration option CONFIG_IP_IFSTATS_TABLE. > > Changes from v1: > - Count input statistics in the input device (per Julian Anastasov). > - Changes so that the existing per interface IPv6 stats aren't affected > when the option isn't enabled. > - Restore the order of calling ipv4_proc_init(). > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Suryaputra <ssuryae...@gmail.com> Using a config option to control this is not appropriate. Every distribution is going to enable this option in their kernels. If the thinking is that a controversial semantic change can be added as long as it can be disabled by a kernel config option, then sorry I have to inform you that is not really how this kind of situation works. I'm not applying this patch, sorry.
