Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 net-next] ifstat: move to new RTM_GETSTATS api

From: Jamal Hadi Salim <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 06:21:20 -0400

On 16-04-30 02:41 AM, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> From: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
>
> This patch modifies ifstat to use the new RTM_GETSTATS api
> to query stats from the kernel. In the process this also
> moves ifstat to use 64 bit stats.

Breaks old kernels? May need to keep backward compat of
RTM_NEWLINK and even new main struct for GETSTATS.

cheers,
jamal