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Re: [RFC 3/3] ath9k: add spectral scan feature

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On 5 December 2012 03:38, Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> How about using relay (Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt) to stream
> sample data to user space via the debugfs file?
> That way you don't have to keep a linked list of small struct fft_sample
> buffers in the kernel and you can stream much more data efficiently with
> little kernel side overhead.
> It also makes pushing the streaming data to a network socket via
> sendfile much more efficient.

Yes, please do this.

When *cough* I do this for FreeBSD, I'll just have people expose this
via BPF. I already have code to pull radar PHY errors out via BPF, so
this becomes just as trivial to do.



Adrian
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