Bug#970722: linux: Igc driver has /proc/net/dev stats issue

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

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Hi,

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 09:57:50PM +0900, Hideo Oshima wrote:
> Source: linux
> Version: 5.8.10-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
> I use Intel I225-V Ethernet controller with igc driver.
> But it has /proc/net/dev stats issue.
> For example Receive and Transmit bytes, packetes are all 0.
> 
> $cat /proc/net/dev
> Inter-|   Receive                                                |  Transmit
>  face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes
> packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
>     lo:   22642     271    0    0    0     0          0         0    22642
> 271    0    0    0     0       0          0
> enp9s0:       0       0    0 9648    0     0          0         0        0
> 0    0    0    0     0       0          0
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?

There were some refactorings in upstream up to v5.9.1 in the igc
driver. Can you check, does the issue still persist in 5.9.1-1  as
currently in unstable?

Regards,
Salvatore