Currently, the alx driver doesn't support statistics [1,2]. The
original alx driver [3] that Johannes Berg modified provided
statistics. This patch is an adaptation of the statistics code from
the original driver to the alx driver included in the kernel.
v4:
- modified the assignements of hw stats to netstats (Ben Hutchings)
- added comments to describe the stats fields (copied from atlx)
v3:
- renamed __alx_update_hw_stats to alx_update_hw_stats (Stephen Hemminger)
v2:
- use u64 instead of unsigned long (Ben Hutchings)
- implement ndo_get_stats64 instead of ndo_get_stats (Ben Hutchings)
- use EINVAL instead of ENOTSUPP (Ben Hutchings)
- add BUILD_BUG_ON to check the size of the stats (Johannes Berg, Ben
Hutchings)
- add a comment regarding persistence of the stats (Stephen Hemminger)
- align assignments in __alx_update_hw_stats