Re: rx_packets/bytes stats for error frames

[Jakob Unterwurzacher]

On 14.03.18 10:46, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> > > We do count them, as errors!
> > >
> > > This is what happens when you transmit a single CAN frame with nothing
> > > connected: "TX errors" shoots up but "RX packets" stays zero.
> >
> > This is handled not consistent in the existing CAN drivers. In flexcan
> > all and c_can (all but rx overflow) are counted as rx_packets and
> > rx_bytes. (I haven't looked at the other drivers.)
> >
> > I tend to count the error frames as ordinary frames.
>
> +1, I think we should count the packets and bytes delivered to the 
> network layer.

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-statistics says:

> What:		/sys/class/<iface>/statistics/rx_packets
> Date:		April 2005
> KernelVersion:	2.6.12
> Contact:	netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Description:
> 		Indicates the total number of good packets received by this
> 		network device.

I considered error frames not "good packets", but I can change that for 
v3, no problem.

Best regards,
Jakob