Arend van Spriel <[email protected]> writes: >>> I do kind of prefer 64 bit counters in the general case. Nuke it from >>> orbit, it's the only way to be sure. >> >> It's 64-bit to user-space, but that means nothing because firmware >> uses 32-bit (or even 16 bit in some cases, probably) internally. >> A great deal of counters are the same, so be very careful when >> trying to keep long term counters grabbed from firmware/drivers/hardware. >> >> And, stations come and go when you re-associate, so all sorts of wifi >> counters >> reset themselves all the time... > > Does ath driver notify mac80211 about firmware restart, ie. through > ieee80211_restart_hw().
ath10k does use ieee80211_restart_hw(). > If only user-space could get that info. Yeah, that would be nice to have for ath10k firmware crash dump functionality. And doesn't Android also need something similar? -- Kalle Valo _______________________________________________ ath10k mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k
