From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail022-1.exch022.serverdata.net ([64.78.22.98]:38130 "EHLO mail022-1.exch022.serverdata.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752593Ab2K0FkR (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:40:17 -0500 Message-ID: <50B45239.7070300@posedge.com> (sfid-20121127_064021_010485_541944DC) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:10:09 +0530 From: Saravana MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Berg CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: add debugfs file for current tx rate References: <3cce329ee6381f0ab4dd4d86ea76c2da@posedge.com> <1353942595.2800.2.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <1353942595.2800.2.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11/26/2012 08:39 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 05:22 -0800, saravanad@posedge.com wrote: >> Add a debugfs file showing the current tx rate. >> The information available in the rc_stats file >> doesn't evidently provides us the current tx rate. >> This patch adds the support for the same. > > I don't see any value in this, you can just do "iw station dump" to get > the information. > The debugfs already contains almost all the parameters that can be viewed when "iw station dump" is used. e.g. rx/tx bytes,packets, tx retry, power. The current tx rate was available in iw but not in debugfs. For sake of completeness and to maintain uniformity, thought of adding current tx rate to debugfs. > johannes > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >