From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([5.9.151.49]:43020 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751500AbcLEOIO (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2016 09:08:14 -0500 Message-ID: <1480946891.31788.10.camel@sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20161205_150817_092629_1114780C) Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Return avg sig, rx, tx values in ethtool stats. From: Johannes Berg To: greearb@candelatech.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 15:08:11 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1480442872-7358-1-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> (sfid-20161129_190824_045626_457405E8) References: <1480442872-7358-1-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> (sfid-20161129_190824_045626_457405E8) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 10:07 -0800, greearb@candelatech.com wrote: > From: Ben Greear > > For non-station devices.  This gives at least some useful > summary in some cases (especially when we know AP has only one > station attached, for instance). I never saw the point in having ethtool statistics for something you can get elsewhere, but I'm certainly not making it return a random station's data disregarding everything else. At least the existing ones are sums so that all stations are taken into account... You really should just get per-station stuff through nl80211. johannes