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Re: [PATCH] nl80211: Add support to get BIP failure counters

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On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 01:41:04PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-06-30 at 11:56 +0530, Vinita S. Maloo wrote:
> > Add support to get number of MIC errors, missing MME incidents and
> > packet replay incidents observed while using IGTK/BIGTK keys when
> > PMF and/or beacon protection features are enabled.
> 
> I can imagine you need this for WFA tests, but why are the debugfs
> counters not enough for that?
> 
> I don't really see much functional reason (wpa_supplicant or so) to have
> this, and thus why expose it in the nl80211 API?

Do we have a policy or some kind of preference on how to address dot11
statistics counters that can be handy at debugging real production use
error cases? For this particular case, is there objection to adding
support for fetching dot11RSNAStatsCMACReplays and
dot11RSNAStatsCMACReplays counter values?

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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