Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:38057 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965268Ab2COSwL (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:52:11 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] mac80211: Support getting sta_info stats via ethtool. From: Johannes Berg To: greearb@candelatech.com Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1331833159-12694-2-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> (sfid-20120315_183942_222982_FD61EFBD) References: <1331833159-12694-1-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> <1331833159-12694-2-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> (sfid-20120315_183942_222982_FD61EFBD) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:52:11 +0100 Message-ID: <1331837531.3432.36.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20120315_195216_155517_CF3D3FCC) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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? johannes