Felix Fietkau wrote: > The problem I have with the current stats is they're just an arbitrary > collection of random stuff that is probably useless for 99% of all > users. In many cases the way the stats are collected also makes the data > completely meaningless (e.g. because the source/destination address is > not taken into account). > > Why care about the number of packets on the air that were sent with a > specific rate flag? Why care about the number of beacons on the air > (with no filter on a set of APs or anything)? Or what about the number > of fragments received? To me it just looks like an incoherent set of > useless facts. Yes, having per-station statistics would be useful, mainly for RX and TX. Right now, all the counters are global and there is no way to find out how a particular station is performing, especially in AP mode. Since mac80211 gives us proper debugfs hooks for station addition/deletion, relevant stuff can be moved there. The 'recv' file used to be just for HW errors (DESC, CRC etc.), now it has various counters that should probably be node-specific. The 'xmit' file can be trimmed and information can be maintained per-station. This will be really useful in AP mode - especially for diagnosing aggregation, QoS, PS etc. Other than these two files, the rest are simple. Sujith -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
