From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>,
John W Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>,
Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtl8187: Add callback for get_tsf
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:17:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1264583879.25642.13.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B5F8891.4000204@lwfinger.net>
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On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 18:28 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> > Presumably this new api is needed and used by some userland tools (iw
> > or other QoS-related tool?).
>
> From include/net/mac80211.h: "It is currently used for IBSS mode BSSID merging
> and debugging". Implementation of this callback is voluntary.
In fact, if you give mac80211 TSF timestamps with each packet, it will
never be used other than from the debugfs file.
johannes
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-27 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-26 23:45 [PATCH] rtl8187: Add callback for get_tsf Larry Finger
2010-01-26 23:57 ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-01-27 0:27 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2010-01-27 0:17 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2010-01-27 0:28 ` Larry Finger
2010-01-27 9:17 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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