Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool -e1000/pcnet32

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Jun 02 2008 - 01:39:54 EST


From: Bill Fink <billfink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 16:46:14 -0400

> Another issue that occurred to me is if multiple people are working
> on troubleshooting a network problem, how do we insure that they all
> get a consistent view of the stats?

Some of them definitely won't get a consistent view if one of them
triggers this undesirable statistic clearing knob.
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