Andrew Morton wrote:
Looking at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8106
Guys, could we please have a ruling here?
When a net driver encounters a tx_fifo_error, should this also contribute
to the tx_error count, or should it not?
For each TX error, (a) tx_error is incremented and (b) a more-specific
TX error stat is also potentially incremented. So, yes, tx_error
accumulates.
See cp_tx() in 8139cp.
More generally, should netdev drivers accumulate all the detailed
rx_errors into net_device_stats.rx_errors in real time, or should they not?
For each RX error, (a) rx_error is incremented and (b) a more-specific
RX error stat is also potentially incremented. So, yes, rx_error
accumulates.
See cp_rx_err_acct() in 8139cp.
Jeff
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