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Chips in this family only have one set of histogram counters, which can be used to count ingressing and/or egressing traffic. mv88e6xxx has, up until this point, kept the hardware default of counting both directions. In the mean time, standard counter group support has been added to ethtool. Via that interface, drivers may report ingress-only and egress-only histograms separately - but not combined. In order for mv88e6xxx to maximize amount of diagnostic information that can be exported via standard interfaces, we opt to limit the histogram counters to ingress traffic only. Which will allow us to export them via the standard "rmon" group in an upcoming commit. The reason for choosing ingress-only over egress-only, is to be compatible with RFC2819 (RMON MIB). Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@waldekranz.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.