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Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: add debugfs file for current tx rate
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Saravana <saravanad@posedge.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:58:15 +0100
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On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 11:10 +0530, Saravana wrote:
> On 11/26/2012 08:39 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 05:22 -0800, saravanad@posedge.com wrote:
> >> Add a debugfs file showing the current tx rate.
> >> The information available in the rc_stats file
> >> doesn't evidently provides us the current tx rate.
> >> This patch adds the support for the same.
> >
> > I don't see any value in this, you can just do "iw station dump" to get
> > the information.
> >
> The debugfs already contains almost all the parameters that can be 
> viewed  when "iw station dump" is used. e.g. rx/tx bytes,packets, tx 
> retry, power. The current tx rate was available in iw but not in debugfs.
> For sake of completeness and to maintain uniformity, thought of adding
> current tx rate to debugfs.

*shrug*
Ok, fair enough. I guess we can do that.

johannes