Re: if_ethersubr.c: if_ierrors -> if_iqdrops?

[Ryota Ozaki <ozaki-r%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 6:03 AM Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> In article <3360841c-e7fc-147d-1347-fe427d41a2f2%SDF.ORG@localhost>,
> RVP  <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost> wrote:
> >On Mon, 8 Nov 2021, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> >
> >>> On Nov 7, 2021, at 11:07 PM, RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> So, I hacked up a small patch to put most of these into the
> >>> "if_iqdrops" bucket. The rest (following FreeBSD) remain as errors.
> >>
> >> LGTM!
> >>
> >
> >On Mon, 8 Nov 2021, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> >
> >>> As far as I'm concerned, you can silently chuck most of these errors
> >>> away--like FreeBSD does, or classify them as "dropped" like Linux does.
> >>> Either way is fine with me--just not "if_ierrors": that's too confusing.
> >>
> >> I think that the patch makes sense...
> >>
> >
> >OK, so discarded packets are fine as `if_iqdrops'. Otherwise, a kernel w/o
> >vlan (or netatalk, carp, ...) compiled in will show:
>
> Yes, I think that we need the distinction between discard and drop...
> Or we should just not count discard...

Another option may be if_noproto.

  ozaki-r