Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.19.149.2]:25260 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754102Ab1DEO7g (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2011 10:59:36 -0400 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.105]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:59:11 -0700 Message-ID: <4D9B2E53.7080209@atheros.com> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 20:29:31 +0530 From: Mohammed Shafi MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Berg CC: Mohammed Shajakhan , Helmut Schaa , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: Add station uptime in debugfs References: <1302010795-2522-1-git-send-email-mshajakhan@atheros.com> <201104051604.16143.helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> <4D9B28D0.7020306@atheros.com> <1302015045.4968.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <1302015045.4968.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tuesday 05 April 2011 08:20 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 20:06 +0530, Mohammed Shafi wrote: > >> On Tuesday 05 April 2011 07:34 PM, Helmut Schaa wrote: >> >>> Am Dienstag, 5. April 2011 schrieb Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan: >>> >>> >>>> From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan >>>> >>>> Add station uptime parameter in debugfs. This will be helpful to get a >>>> measure of stability of connection and also during stress testing. >>>> >>>> >>> It might even make sense to make this available through nl80211. At least >>> in AP mode it would be interesting to see how long each STA is already >>> connected. >>> >>> Helmut >>> >>> >> Thanks, will do it once the maintainers are ok with this patch. >> > Fine with me, but you should probably not call it "uptime" but rather > "connected_time" or something, and address Felix's point. > Thanks for the review, I will look to address both the things. thanks, shafi > johannes > >