Subject: Re: [RFC] Replacing qdisc tc_stats with generic statistics to make it extendable

From: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:41:43 -0700

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 00:21:49 +0200
Thomas Graf <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Since this is pretty major and will touch a lot of code I'd be interested
> if this is the right way to go and how to do it to make patch submission
> as easy as possible.
> Here would be my scenario on howto do it in several steps not breaking
> anything in between:
> Step 1: Use new generic networking statistics, update all qdiscs and
>         switch to new estimator. Doesn't break anything but must be
>         atomic.
> Step 2-N: Add dump_stats and update qdiscs one after each other.
> 
> Thoughts?

This sounds fine to me.  Don't be concerned about breaking binary-only
qdiscs :-)