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Re: [PATCH 1/2] ath10k: use cumulative survey statistics

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On 5/4/20 6:29 PM, Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> On Monday, 4 May 2020 17:41:21 CEST Markus Theil wrote:
>> ath10k currently reports survey results for the last interval between each
>> invocation of NL80211_CMD_GET_SURVEY. For concurrent invocations, this
>> can lead to unexpectedly small results, e.g. when hostapd uses survey
>> data and iw survey dump is invoked in parallel. Fix this by returning
>> cumulative results, that don't depend on the last invocation. Other
>> drivers, e.g. ath9k or mt76 also use this behavior.
> It is (unfortunately) not that trivial:
>
> See code and comments from other people:
>
> * https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11150285/
> * https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11150287/
> * https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11150289/
>
> Kind regards,
> 	Sven
Thanks a lot for pointing this out! I was not aware of your patch.




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