From: Saravana <saravanad@posedge.com>
To: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: add debugfs file for last rx rate
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:48:59 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50BC4453.2070705@posedge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50BB4BC5.1010806@openwrt.org>
On 12/02/2012 06:08 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2012-11-29 3:24 PM, Saravana wrote:
>> Add a debugfs file showing the rate at which
>> the last packet is received.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Saravana <saravanad@posedge.com>
> What's the point of adding debugfs files for data which is already
> available via nl80211?
>
The debugfs is a repository of statistics. Many of the statistics like
tx/rx bytes/packets, retries, signal,power etc which are available via nl80211(iw)
are already available in debugfs. For the sake of completeness and to maintain
uniformity the last rx rate is added to debugfs.
> - Felix
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-03 6:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-29 14:24 [PATCH] mac80211: add debugfs file for last rx rate Saravana
2012-11-29 14:34 ` Johannes Berg
2012-11-30 7:57 ` Saravana
2012-12-02 12:38 ` Felix Fietkau
2012-12-03 6:18 ` Saravana [this message]
2012-12-03 8:14 ` Felix Fietkau
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