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    gianfar: remove largely unused gfar_stats struct · 68719786
    Paul Gortmaker authored
    
    
    The gfar_stats struct is only used in copying out data
    via ethtool.  It is declared as the extra stats, followed
    by the rmon stats.  However, the rmon stats are never
    actually ever used in the driver; instead the rmon data
    is a u32 register read that is cast directly into the
    ethtool buf.
    
    It seems the only reason rmon is in the struct at all is
    to give the offset(s) at which it should be exported into
    the ethtool buffer.  But note gfar_stats doesn't contain
    a gfar_extra_stats as a substruct -- instead it contains
    a u64 array of equal element count.  This implicitly means
    we have two independent declarations of what gfar_extra_stats
    really is.  Rather than have this duality, we already have
    defines which give us the offset directly, and hence do not
    need the struct at all.
    
    Further, since we know the extra_stats is unconditionally
    always present, we can write it out to the ethtool buf
    1st, and then optionally write out the rmon data.  There
    is no need for two independent loops, both of which are
    simply copying out the extra_stats to buf offset zero.
    
    This also helps pave the way towards allowing the extra
    stats fields to be converted to atomic64_t values, without
    having their types directly influencing the ethtool stats
    export code (gfar_fill_stats) that expects to deal with u64.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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