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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mac-hwsim:  add ethtool stats support.
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 06:48:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5433EF3A.5090504@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1412671568.1825.1.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>

On 10/07/2014 01:46 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 14:22 -0700, greearb@candelatech.com wrote:
>
>> +static const char mac80211_hwsim_gstrings_stats[][ETH_GSTRING_LEN] = {
>> +	"tx_pkts_nic",
>> +	"tx_bytes_nic",
>> +	"rx_pkts_nic",
>> +	"rx_bytes_nic",
>> +	"d_tx_dropped",
>> +	"d_tx_failed",
>> +	"d_ps_mode",
>> +	"d_group",
>> +	"d_tx_power",
>
> What's that d_ prefix?

Stats from the driver v/s from the mac80211 stack.  Basically, it
mimics how I did ath9k, ath9k_htc, and ath10k stats (though
not sure ath10k made it upstream yet).

The first 4 match those wifi drivers as well as some Intel wired
NICs.

It doesn't matter a huge amount if you want to change the names,
but it makes user-space stats reporting easier if you would leave
them the same...

Thanks,
Ben

>
> johannes
>


-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-07 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-25 21:22 [PATCH 1/3] mac-hwsim: don't leak memory on tx failure greearb
2014-09-25 21:22 ` [PATCH 2/3] mac-hwsim: add ethtool stats support greearb
2014-10-07  8:46   ` Johannes Berg
2014-10-07 13:48     ` Ben Greear [this message]
2014-10-09  9:44       ` Johannes Berg
2014-09-25 21:22 ` [PATCH 3/3] mac-hwsim: fix typo, remove un-needed goto greearb
2014-10-07  8:46 ` [PATCH 1/3] mac-hwsim: don't leak memory on tx failure Johannes Berg

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