Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Add num_stations connected in debugfs
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Mohammed Shafi <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:07:02 +0200
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On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 17:33 +0530, Mohammed Shafi wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 April 2011 05:28 PM, Lito Kriara wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I was away the last couple of days and just saw these e-mails. It
> > seems really interesting and helpful, but what if we need to know at
> > runtime the number of stations connected to the AP?
> > Is the first patch sent good to use? Should I do some modification to it?
> >    
> Yes this will be fine.

Or you can use what I wrote without patching:

> >>> iw wlan0 station dump | grep '^Station ' | wc -l

FWIW, I wouldn't mind adding the num_sta to debugfs, but as we discussed
in this thread it's a different number.

johannes