On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 02:02:46PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote: > Wouldn't a simple unsigned long (like in struct net_device_stats) be > sufficient here? This would make handling the counter much simpler. > And as far as I understand we talk about a packet counter that is > touched in certain scenarios only.
I don't understand, in what sense 'sufficient'? This counter is exported to ethtool which works with u64 values, how would an unsigned long, which is u32 on 32-bit systems, help?
