Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] nl80211/mac80211: Add channel utilization to survey
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
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Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:52:34 +0200
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On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 09:44 +0200, Helmut Schaa wrote:

> So, I guess it makes sense to just return the calculated channel
> utilization value (u8)
> and keep it up to date within the driver.

Not good, that means drivers implementing this will have to wake the CPU
to do calculations even if nobody cares.

johannes