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Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 14:57:49 -0700
From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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To: ath10k <ath10k@lists.infradead.org>,
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Subject: Reporting firmware stats to ethtool
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I'm working on a patch to report the stats seen in debugfs/...ath10k/fw_stats
as ethtool stats, somewhat similar to how ath9k does it.

I notice that my user-space tool is reporting huge numbers because
the stats are reset to zero when firmware restarts, and so my tool
thinks the stats wrapped.

I can fix my tool easily enough, but I first wanted to see if
anyone had strong feelings about keeping the stats from resetting
to zero by storing history and calculating diffs in the driver.

I think my preference is to punt this to user-space, but if
someone feels otherwise, please let me know sooner than later.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com