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Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] ath9k: Support ethtool getstats api.

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On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 12:37 +0530, Sujith Manoharan wrote:
> Ben Greear wrote:
> > I'd like to gather at least most stats always, so ethtool can work regardless
> > of debugfs.  But, that can be follow on patches in my opinion.  If it turns
> > out that we need another config option for this, then that is fine too.
> 
> It would be good to have an option to compile this out. The information is
> available via the debugfs interface, so this is basically duplicating things.
> On APs using OpenWRT, debugfs is enabled by default, so we can just read
> the debugfs files.

ethtool is the normal way to expose extended network stats, so the
debugfs interface should be dropped in favour of this.

Ben.

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