Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:60429 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753581Ab1DEOus (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2011 10:50:48 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: Add station uptime in debugfs From: Johannes Berg To: Mohammed Shafi Cc: Helmut Schaa , Mohammed Shajakhan , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <4D9B28D0.7020306@atheros.com> References: <1302010795-2522-1-git-send-email-mshajakhan@atheros.com> <201104051604.16143.helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> <4D9B28D0.7020306@atheros.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:50:45 +0200 Message-ID: <1302015045.4968.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. johannes