From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.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 15:21:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mpquza9.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150310165323.GB11700@qca.qualcomm.com> (Rajkumar Manoharan's message of "Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:23:24 +0530")
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.
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-12 13:21 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 [this message]
2015-03-12 13:50 ` Rajkumar Manoharan
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