On 03/15/2012 11:52 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 10:39 -0700, greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Ben Greear<greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
This lets ethtool print out stats related to station
interfaces. Does not yet get stats from the underlying
driver.
Hmm. What's the advantage of using ethtool over iw, which already has a
bunch of these numbers?
Well, ethtool api might be easier for some apps to use,
and perhaps easier for users to read if all they want
are stats.
But, I also plan to add stats from the underlying
driver with and additional (optional) call down
to the driver, and I think we would not ever want to
add that to netlink API.
That way, we can add internal ath9k counters and
such instead of having to use debugfs.
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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