[PATCH] cfg80211/nl80211: Add support for NL80211_STA_INFO_RX_DURATION

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Thu Mar 3 07:46:23 PST 2016


On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 19:38 +0530, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote:
> From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed at qti.qualcomm.com>
> 
> Add support for new netlink attribute 'NL80211_STA_INFO_RX_DURATION'
> This flag will be set when drivers can fill rx_duration ( approximate
> total air time(usecs) for unicast data/management frames from the
> connected client) via 'drv_sta_statistics' callback

So, what's that useful for?

Are you really sure you mean "unicast"? What if the station is the AP?
Why wouldn't multicast frames it transmitted be accounted for?

> Also make sta_info flags 'filled' as 64 bit to accomodate for new

typo: accommodate

johannes



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