Subject: Re: How to count tx and rx bytes?

From: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:54:22 -0800

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:46:59 -0800
Ben Greear <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Maybe the stats-polling code in the driver could do the necessary subtraction
> to remove the FCS from the results (ie, subtract (packets-since-last-sample * 4) bytes.

The whole reason to use the chip internally computed stats is to avoid
having to do "stats->foo++" at all, your suggestion basically eliminates
this purpose.