[PATCH] Re: via-rhine and missing /proc/net/dev receive bytes

David B. Rees (dbr@spoke.nols.com)
Sun, 11 Apr 1999 16:19:41 -0700 (PDT)

On 11-Apr-99 Philip Blundell wrote:
>>Well, the weird part is that the transmitting bytes are working properly...
>
> Yeah. I just looked at the driver and it does indeed implement the tx byte
> counter but not the rx one. Bizarre.
>
> To make it work you just need to add something along the lines of `np->
> stats.rx_bytes += skb->len;' at about line 1053, I imagine.
>
> p.

You are correct. Here's the patch. I've cc'd Donald Becker so he can put the
changes in his code, too.

-Dave

--- linux/drivers/net/via-rhine.c.orig Sun Apr 11 16:16:17 1999
+++ linux/drivers/net/via-rhine.c Sun Apr 11 16:15:45 1999
@@ -1053,6 +1053,7 @@
skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
netif_rx(skb);
dev->last_rx = jiffies;
+ np->stats.rx_bytes += skb->len;
np->stats.rx_packets++;
}
entry = (++np->cur_rx) % RX_RING_SIZE;

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