Re: [PATCH v6 net-next] net-core: add InMacErrors counter

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Thu Feb 03 2022 - 14:35:27 EST


On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 10:05:17 -0800 Brian Vazquez wrote:
> > If everyone disagrees - should we at least rename the MIB counter
> > similarly to the drop reason? Experience shows that users call for
> > help when they see counters with Error in their name, I'd vote for
> > IpExtInDropOtherhost or some such. The statistic should also be
> > documented in Documentation/networking/snmp_counter.rst
>
> Changing the Name to IpExtInDropOtherhost and adding the documentation
> makes sense to me. What do others think? I'd like to get more feedback
> before Jeffrey sends another version.

I'm not sure we reached the "everyone disagrees with me" point at least
not yet ;)