From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] mac80211: Support getting sta_info stats via ethtool.
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:39:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8F42B0.8010306@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F8EEB6C.1030605@candelatech.com>
On 4/18/2012 9:27 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
>> Oh, right, it's adding, I missed that. But is that really useful?
>
> It provides a summary for AP, and precise stats for managed station
> mode (excepting TDLS where it may return sums, it seems).
I just have a feeling that people will rely on it working for managed
mode, and will forget about TDLS since it's uncommon now ... so I really
don't think this will work well with people's (even yours!) expectations.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-18 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-17 17:46 [PATCH v2 0/6] Add ethtool stats support for Wireless Devices greearb
2012-04-17 17:46 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] cfg80211: Add framework to support ethtool stats greearb
2012-04-17 17:46 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] mac80211: Support getting sta_info stats via ethtool greearb
2012-04-18 1:37 ` Johannes Berg
2012-04-18 3:46 ` Ben Greear
2012-04-18 4:00 ` Johannes Berg
2012-04-18 16:27 ` Ben Greear
2012-04-18 22:39 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2012-04-18 22:59 ` Ben Greear
2012-04-19 4:38 ` Johannes Berg
2012-04-17 17:46 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] mac80211: Framework to get wifi-driver " greearb
2012-04-17 17:46 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] wireless: Add util method to get channel index from frequency greearb
2012-04-18 1:40 ` Johannes Berg
2012-04-18 3:36 ` Ben Greear
2012-04-17 17:46 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] mac80211: Add more ethtools stats: survey, rates, etc greearb
2012-04-18 1:41 ` Johannes Berg
2012-04-18 3:31 ` Ben Greear
2012-04-18 4:05 ` Johannes Berg
2012-04-18 16:19 ` Ben Greear
2012-04-18 22:40 ` Johannes Berg
2012-04-18 22:54 ` Ben Greear
2012-04-19 4:37 ` Johannes Berg
2012-04-17 17:46 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] mac80211: Add sta_state to ethtool stats greearb
2012-04-18 1:42 ` Johannes Berg
2012-04-18 1:44 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] Add ethtool stats support for Wireless Devices Johannes Berg
2012-04-18 3:56 ` Ben Greear
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