Re: [PATCH net-next] net: core: Expose number of link up/down transitions

[Jiri Pirko]

Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 12:06:57AM CET, f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>From: David Decotigny <decot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Expose the number of times the link has been going UP or DOWN, and
>update the "carrier_changes" counter to be the sum of these two events.
>While at it, also update the sysfs-class-net documentation to cover:
>carrier_changes (3.15), count_link_up (4.16) and count_link_down (4.16)
>
>Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <decot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

[...]


>@@ -161,6 +161,8 @@ enum {
> 	IFLA_EVENT,
> 	IFLA_NEW_NETNSID,
> 	IFLA_IF_NETNSID,
>+	IFLA_COUNT_LINK_UP,
>+	IFLA_COUNT_LINK_DOWN,


	IFLA_LINK_UP_COUNT,
	IFLA_LINK_DOWN_COUNT,

would sound a bit nicer to me.

> 	__IFLA_MAX
> };