On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 01:24:41PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasev...@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:58:18 -0500 > > > On 12/12/2013 12:22 PM, David Miller wrote: > >> Give it statistics just like we have for every other kind of similar > >> event. > > > > The fact that link-local address could not be generated for a specific > > device type does not lend itself well to counting. There is no way > > from to tell from the counter which device does not support IPv6 autoconfig. > > If the statistic is per-device, which I recommended it be implemented as, > you indeed can. > > And I do not buy the argument that this is "useless" because the admin > is just going to kill the interface and create a new one. When you > notice there is a problem, you look at the statistics before doing > that!
Granted. IMHO both ways are fine with a slight opionion to counters being overkill. ;) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
