Return-path: Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.21]:60152 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756443Ab3D1TTI (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:19:08 -0400 Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([10.1.76.35]) by mrigmx.server.lan (mrigmx002) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MOEEk-1UR0ow11fg-005YXu for ; Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:19:06 +0200 Message-ID: <517D7626.6030109@rempel-privat.de> (sfid-20130428_212052_138463_20B4364C) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:19:02 +0200 From: Oleksij Rempel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Felix Fietkau CC: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH RFC] ath9k: collect statistics about Rx-Dup and Rx-STBC packets References: <1367076326-21616-1-git-send-email-linux@rempel-privat.de> <517D1B45.9020302@openwrt.org> <517D2E77.8000104@rempel-privat.de> <517D3A5F.6020205@rempel-privat.de> In-Reply-To: <517D3A5F.6020205@rempel-privat.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Am 28.04.2013 17:03, schrieb Oleksij Rempel: > Am 28.04.2013 16:13, schrieb Oleksij Rempel: >> Am 28.04.2013 14:51, schrieb Felix Fietkau: >>> On 2013-04-27 5:25 PM, Oleksij Rempel wrote: >>>> Collect statistics about recived duplicate and STBC packets. >>>> This information should help see if STBC is actually working. >>>> >>>> Tested on ar9285; >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel >>> I thought about this patch some more, and I'm wondering what's the point >>> in doing this? These statistics are going to be completely useless for >>> most people and they'll waste some memory/cpu cycles, especially on >>> small-cache devices. I think it's much more useful to simply pass the >>> information to mac80211 via rx flags and get them added to the radiotap >>> header. >> >> Sure. Now i need some help. Why there is no traces of radiotap in ath9k. Some other drivers have them? Do it communicate in some different way or there is just no radiotap support in ath9k? -- Regards, Oleksij