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Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: Add debugfs callbacks for station
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On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 11:18 +0530, Sujith Manoharan wrote:
> From: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
> 
> Provide drivers with hooks to create debugfs files when
> a new station is added. This would help drivers to take
> advantage of mac80211's station list infrastructure and not maintain
> tedious station management code internally.

I guess this works, and we don't really need tracing for it.

Can the files stay across a firmware restart or suspend/resume? I guess
with suspend/resume nothing can access them, but accessing them during
firmware restart might be ... strange? Not that I'm too worried about
that.

johannes