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Re: Survey data inconsistencies between drivers

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On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:29:49PM +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote:

> In order to have consistent survey data between drivers I'd propose the
> following approach:
> 
> - The driver's get_survey callback only returns relative survey data for the
>   currently active channel. That means reading the current busy time statistics
>   from the hw and clearing the appropriate counters.
> - mac80211 would keep track of accumulating the gathered survey data.
> - mac80211 would read the survey data before each channel change and update
>   the approriate channel's survey data just as ath9k does right now.
> 
> Any arguments against such a unification?

Sounds reasonable to me.

John
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