Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:39585 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755349Ab2CPOCL (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:02:11 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:49:09 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Ben Greear Cc: Johannes Berg , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] mac80211: Support getting sta_info stats via ethtool. Message-ID: <20120316134909.GA2563@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20120316_150214_216166_289E797F) References: <1331833159-12694-1-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> <1331833159-12694-2-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> <1331837531.3432.36.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <4F623B58.1070106@candelatech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4F623B58.1070106@candelatech.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:56:24AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > On 03/15/2012 11:52 AM, Johannes Berg wrote: > >On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 10:39 -0700, greearb@candelatech.com wrote: > >>From: Ben Greear > >> > >>This lets ethtool print out stats related to station > >>interfaces. Does not yet get stats from the underlying > >>driver. > > > >Hmm. What's the advantage of using ethtool over iw, which already has a > >bunch of these numbers? > > Well, ethtool api might be easier for some apps to use, > and perhaps easier for users to read if all they want > are stats. And they can use the same tool for both wired and wireless interfaces -- could be handy. -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.