Hello,
Le 03/16/12 14:49, John W. Linville a écrit :
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.
iw already provides statistics which are relevant for wireless
interfaces. I really don't see the point in also reporting them via
ethtool, also it is going to be error prone if someone updates the
netlink interface and forgets about the ethtool one.
--
Florian
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