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Re: [PATCH 3/5] ath9k: remove rssi/antenna information from recv debug stats

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On 2012-03-03 3:46 PM, Mohammed Shafi wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The way this is implemented (simply storing the last value) is absolutely
>> worthless for debugging anything, and the same information is also available
>> through the MAC sample feature, so there's no point in keeping this around.
> 
> :) :)  please keep this, we were debugging antenna diversity related
> issues in AR9485 with this stats. the antenna switching never
> happened, then with these stats we found that the rss1 seems to be
> always negative, same result with the windows driver also, then later
> found its a EEPROM related issue.
You can already get the antenna from the radiotap information of a
monitor mode interface, which I think is much more useful than this
limited debugfs parameter. If you really need this in debugfs, it could
also be added to the MAC sampling, though I think that one is rather
limited as well.

- Felix
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