Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH RFC] ath9k: collect statistics about Rx-Dup and Rx-STBC packets

[Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>]

On 2013-04-28 9:19 PM, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> Am 28.04.2013 17:03, schrieb Oleksij Rempel:
>> Am 28.04.2013 16:13, schrieb Oleksij Rempel:
>>> Am 28.04.2013 14:51, schrieb Felix Fietkau:
>>>> On 2013-04-27 5:25 PM, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
>>>>> Collect statistics about recived duplicate and STBC packets.
>>>>> This information should help see if STBC is actually working.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tested on ar9285;
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>
>>>> I thought about this patch some more, and I'm wondering what's the point
>>>> in doing this? These statistics are going to be completely useless for
>>>> most people and they'll waste some memory/cpu cycles, especially on
>>>> small-cache devices. I think it's much more useful to simply pass the
>>>> information to mac80211 via rx flags and get them added to the radiotap
>>>> header.
>>>
>>> Sure.
> 
> Now i need some help.
> Why there is no traces of  radiotap in ath9k. Some other drivers have 
> them? Do it communicate in some different way or there is just no 
> radiotap support in ath9k?
radiotap is generated in mac80211, so there's no need for the driver to
do it.

- Felix