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

From: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 08:15:13 -0700

On 4/30/16, 3:21 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> 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.
yes, i was wondering about that. v2 coming. If GETSTATS fails, I will fallback to RTM_NEWLINK.

thanks!