Return-path: Received: from wolverine01.qualcomm.com ([199.106.114.254]:30042 "EHLO wolverine01.qualcomm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756722Ab2CUHIm (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:08:42 -0400 From: Sujith Manoharan MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: <20329.32334.162938.169995@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (sfid-20120321_080859_652530_E81C6FE4) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:37:58 +0530 To: Ben Greear CC: , Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] ath9k: Support ethtool getstats api. In-Reply-To: <4F68B4AA.3070306@candelatech.com> References: <1332183105-4447-1-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> <1332183105-4447-4-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> <4F684301.9040006@openwrt.org> <4F68B4AA.3070306@candelatech.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Ben Greear wrote: > I'd like to gather at least most stats always, so ethtool can work regardless > of debugfs. But, that can be follow on patches in my opinion. If it turns > out that we need another config option for this, then that is fine too. It would be good to have an option to compile this out. The information is available via the debugfs interface, so this is basically duplicating things. On APs using OpenWRT, debugfs is enabled by default, so we can just read the debugfs files. Sujith