atl1c: networking bug - increasing counters with no data.

atl1c: networking bug - increasing counters with no data.

[Ian Kumlien]

Hi all, 

I have a atl1c networking card in my laptop - it's not connected since i
use wifi instead.

After a while of uptime it seems like it goes haywire, tools are
currently reporting data transfers of ~9GB/s

ifconfig eth0
eth0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        ether 48:5b:39:5e:b0:4b  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 324218491164960  bytes 324218491164960 (294.8 TiB)
        RX errors 1945310946989760  dropped 648436982329920  overruns 324218491164960  frame 1621092455824800
        TX packets 324218491164960  bytes 324218491164960 (294.8 TiB)
        TX errors 1296878259627135  dropped 0 overruns 324218491164960  carrier 648436982329920  collisions 1621092455824800

ethtool -i eth0
driver: atl1c
version: 1.0.1.0-NAPI
firmware-version: 
bus-info: 0000:04:00.0
supports-statistics: no
supports-test: no
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: no

uptime
 19:45:20 up 1 day, 17:45,  8 users,  load average: 0.74, 1.79, 1.41

The only changes i have been able to spot was the __dev* cleanups... 

git log HEAD...v3.7.3 --format=oneline -- drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/
1dd06ae8db716e17ec7e06244b858606edf378c0 drivers/net: fix up function prototypes after __dev* removals
093d369d4e8e8b6361317edd83935bdf8a0c83de net/atheros: remove __dev* attributes

And I'm currently running: v3.8-rc4-139-g1d85490

(It takes a while to recreate... )