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Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:48:59 +0530
From: Saravana <saravanad@posedge.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: add debugfs file for last rx rate
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On 12/02/2012 06:08 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2012-11-29 3:24 PM, Saravana wrote:
>> Add a debugfs file showing the rate at which
>> the last packet is received.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Saravana <saravanad@posedge.com>
> What's the point of adding debugfs files for data which is already
> available via nl80211?
> 
The debugfs is a repository of statistics. Many of the statistics like
tx/rx bytes/packets, retries, signal,power etc which are available via nl80211(iw)
are already available in debugfs. For the sake of completeness and to maintain
uniformity the last rx rate is added to debugfs.
> - Felix
>