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Re: [RFC 2/2] mac80211: support RX rate statistics

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Johannes Berg wrote:
> Not right now - and there's practically no space left in the rate u16 to
> store it.
> 
> Eyal also commented that perhaps not just antennas but also
> STBC/LDPC/beamforming should be tracked.
> 
> We can achieve this by increasing the size of the rate field to u32, but
> then we also have far more combinations so probably need to increase the
> size of the buffer from 36 entries to more since otherwise we just end
> up sending the data out to userspace too frequently? Antennas for
> example could change frequently for single stream rates.
> 
> This capability right now is mostly intended for Android Lollipop's
> statistics requirements, where the rate only matters.

Ok.

> If others want to use it for more, I'm certainly not averse to adding
> it, but it'd also mean adding more userspace API (where it might be a
> bit strange to add "antennas" to the "rate" since that doesn't impact
> the actual rate?)

Having a well-defined API to export statistics seems useful, but
I guess that can be added later.

Sujith
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