Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:33023 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753341Ab0A0JST (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:18:19 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtl8187: Add callback for get_tsf From: Johannes Berg To: Larry Finger Cc: Hin-Tak Leung , John W Linville , Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski , Hin-Tak Leung , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4B5F8891.4000204@lwfinger.net> References: <4b5f7e98.WueiIRrKwMIrtoob%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <3ace41891001261617w54e8c08dm5d317f7c2b17cba4@mail.gmail.com> <4B5F8891.4000204@lwfinger.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-4sFgDpC2wE8Vqv4HmZQE" Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:17:59 +0100 Message-ID: <1264583879.25642.13.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-4sFgDpC2wE8Vqv4HmZQE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 18:28 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > > Presumably this new api is needed and used by some userland tools (iw > > or other QoS-related tool?). >=20 > From include/net/mac80211.h: "It is currently used for IBSS mode BSSID m= erging=20 > and debugging". Implementation of this callback is voluntary. In fact, if you give mac80211 TSF timestamps with each packet, it will never be used other than from the debugfs file. johannes --=-4sFgDpC2wE8Vqv4HmZQE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJLYATCAAoJEODzc/N7+QmaBKEP/0LE5+mAXUyd3c6GJMFIOuAr eWD5MAoCoG2S0rASlqWVBJ04OO659bB8KWmkmR6MpiMimTVpgToUvI/NyYsMVx36 9kBlYIeT5JKWg6uFhfcvHHpTgtEBPTbYp+0edFmXl+El9+xoHTsVkEeFOVgKiYd7 6B1c8izLGc9MyieRGvaZT3GmcLyqwA0FNxNYkdTjHHHT/esjr9xgu+hShKi5Dm0I R2FWvuLOTbeJzZpEUieBz8s0gwnsYJwlykrPDJlcThNh3qhfDdlFPYBmOhykndTs eQTJvKV87itq6QriHUWrBdlWAMddHRLvu72kDkyH/R4CI8hPUmwa2aif5KfoUJWz G/qRV6BRufQ0oCrmDM1FmOV0fC8P3kop4fNbP2lkArRJzl54tUHSMzBV3xBDgLIw JjAa1oCgJNI5YXl3viM+yFt5DQ3Bu61VftTMmHvdvw/2a5b6Fav5o2EUnkQ74AAl 4J8ZL/kRTG77u4xHicCuJ/TMg4OcVjwqIHRUbe09mSWZpRao3zw8y0pNXkU8K9OS PVdV//HtnYuhqfWDaO7lwiE2NbPGNwXS6k1vV6PDafljouYLFZlhnrUY1OP7WwMk phm18ybgXYiVLQObjKDzYx9e/C+sFZ0cYxQSYT72aBsXmn2QVRvKtSFHYWCOPsgp uD3yFM4Lmyi+TuJeH+m8 =VVx1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-4sFgDpC2wE8Vqv4HmZQE--