On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 15:26 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 21:14 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > These look like the statistic names specified in IEEE 802.3. I would > > support a general move to using standard names for MAC stats in Ethernet > > drivers, because they are quite clearly defined and widely implemented > > in hardware. However, that is not the current practice in most Linux > > drivers. > > Hey Ben. > > Maybe something like this would be a start? > > Change the actual #defines/strings to taste. > > Maybe this shouldn't be in uapi or maybe in if_ether.h [...]
This is pointless without also nailing down the definition of each
statistic. That could be done with reference to standards/RFCs, of
course.
Ben.
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