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Re: [RFC] mac80211: allow drivers to provide any statistics

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On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 11:48 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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.
> 
> Note that this doesn't currently allow a driver to say "I know
> this value is wrong, don't report it at all", or to sum it up
> with a mac80211 value (as could be useful for "dropped misc"),
> that can be added if it turns out to be needed.
> 
> This also gets rid of the get_rssi() method as is can now be
> implemented using sta_statistics().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/main.c | 22 ++++----

The wlcore part of this looks fine to me.

Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <luca@xxxxxxxxx>

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Luca.

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