From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Survey data inconsistencies between drivers
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:21:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110124142153.GA10676@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201101241229.50142.helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:29:49PM +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> In order to have consistent survey data between drivers I'd propose the
> following approach:
>
> - The driver's get_survey callback only returns relative survey data for the
> currently active channel. That means reading the current busy time statistics
> from the hw and clearing the appropriate counters.
> - mac80211 would keep track of accumulating the gathered survey data.
> - mac80211 would read the survey data before each channel change and update
> the approriate channel's survey data just as ath9k does right now.
>
> Any arguments against such a unification?
Sounds reasonable to me.
John
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2011-01-24 11:29 Survey data inconsistencies between drivers Helmut Schaa
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