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From: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: <ath10k@lists.infradead.org>, <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ath10k: add sysfs entry to configure quiet period
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 19:20:54 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150312135052.GB3305@qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874mpquza9.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 03:21:34PM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 05:43:58PM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> >> Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Add support to configure quiet period via sysfs entry. This will
> >> > be helpful to experiment different quiet period values along with
> >> > different duty cycle ratio.
> >> >
> >> > To configure quiet period as 30ms,
> >> >
> >> > echo 30 >/sys/class/ieee80211/phyX/device/quiet_period
> >> 
> >> What's the justification? To me this looks like an ugly driver private
> >> hack. Why can't you use nl80211 or something else?
> >
> > As this is purely for testing purpose to play around with different
> > quiet period along with various throttling state, sysfs entry is used
> > instead of netlink testmode command. Instead of debugfs, sysfs entry is
> > selected to align with existing thermal interface. 
> 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I consider sysfs as a stable user
> space interface. It's not meant for random testing stuff.
> 
Completely agree. Will move this change under debugfs. Does it sound
good?

-Rajkumar

      reply	other threads:[~2015-03-12 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-20 13:04 [PATCH 1/3] ath10k: add sysfs entry to configure quiet period Rajkumar Manoharan
2015-02-20 13:04 ` [PATCH 2/3] ath10k: fix wrong symlink name on error path Rajkumar Manoharan
2015-03-12 13:00   ` Kalle Valo
2015-03-15  8:24     ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2015-02-20 13:04 ` [PATCH 3/3] ath10k: add symlink for hwmon device Rajkumar Manoharan
2015-03-10 15:39   ` Kalle Valo
2015-03-10 16:42     ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2015-03-12 13:20       ` Kalle Valo
2015-03-12 13:46         ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2015-03-10 15:43 ` [PATCH 1/3] ath10k: add sysfs entry to configure quiet period Kalle Valo
2015-03-10 16:53   ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2015-03-12 13:21     ` Kalle Valo
2015-03-12 13:50       ` Rajkumar Manoharan [this message]

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