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On Wed, 2017-11-15 at 19:21 +0000, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> > 
> Hmm.. But polling TX/RX counters will not give exact activity time. 

Yeah but if you do it every minute, you'll know if it was idle for
roughly 5 minutes, or so... dunno, things could be done.

> Moreover
> It will be useful if STA's last data activity tstamp is logged in station dump. No?

I don't object to adding that, though we should be careful with adding
things and see if we _really_ need them, since they all have a cost.

johannes