On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:56:24AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > 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. And they can use the same tool for both wired and wireless interfaces -- could be handy. -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
