On 11/19/2014 09:49 AM, Bob Copeland wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:48:06AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: >> From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]> >> >> In many cases, drivers can filter things like beacons that will >> skew statistics reported by mac80211. To get correct statistics >> in these cases, call drivers to obtain statistics and let them >> override all values, filling values from mac80211 if the driver >> didn't provide them. > > Neat. > > For mesh, it's handy to have the (somewhat imperfectly specified) > sta->fail_avg too for drivers that implement all the rate control > in firmware and thus may not report tx status for all frames. > > At cozybit we had implemented a drv_link_stats driver op (hack) that > just got last_tx_rate and fail_avg so that the airtime link metric > could work on such devices; this call could replace that, I hope.
The ethtool stats API could also handle at least some of this, but it's a bit free-form to program against... Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear <[email protected]> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
