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authorJohannes Berg2014-11-21 12:40:05 +0100
committerJohannes Berg2015-01-08 15:28:16 +0100
commit8d791361a4698ca6f01c361a47b39b30d26bf66c (patch)
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parentcfg80211: add nl80211 beacon-only statistics (diff)
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nl80211: clarify packet statistics descriptions
The current statistics we keep aren't very clear, some are on MPDUs and some on MSDUs/MMPDUs. Clarify the descriptions based on the counters mac80211 keeps. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h24
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
index 0c3d341c0aeb..b0fb5d598250 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -2338,18 +2338,24 @@ enum nl80211_sta_bss_param {
*
* @__NL80211_STA_INFO_INVALID: attribute number 0 is reserved
* @NL80211_STA_INFO_INACTIVE_TIME: time since last activity (u32, msecs)
- * @NL80211_STA_INFO_RX_BYTES: total received bytes (u32, from this station)
- * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BYTES: total transmitted bytes (u32, to this station)
- * @NL80211_STA_INFO_RX_BYTES64: total received bytes (u64, from this station)
- * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BYTES64: total transmitted bytes (u64, to this station)
+ * @NL80211_STA_INFO_RX_BYTES: total received bytes (MPDU length)
+ * (u32, from this station)
+ * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BYTES: total transmitted bytes (MPDU length)
+ * (u32, to this station)
+ * @NL80211_STA_INFO_RX_BYTES64: total received bytes (MPDU length)
+ * (u64, from this station)
+ * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BYTES64: total transmitted bytes (MPDU length)
+ * (u64, to this station)
* @NL80211_STA_INFO_SIGNAL: signal strength of last received PPDU (u8, dBm)
* @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BITRATE: current unicast tx rate, nested attribute
* containing info as possible, see &enum nl80211_rate_info
- * @NL80211_STA_INFO_RX_PACKETS: total received packet (u32, from this station)
- * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_PACKETS: total transmitted packets (u32, to this
- * station)
- * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_RETRIES: total retries (u32, to this station)
- * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_FAILED: total failed packets (u32, to this station)
+ * @NL80211_STA_INFO_RX_PACKETS: total received packet (MSDUs and MMPDUs)
+ * (u32, from this station)
+ * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_PACKETS: total transmitted packets (MSDUs and MMPDUs)
+ * (u32, to this station)
+ * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_RETRIES: total retries (MPDUs) (u32, to this station)
+ * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_FAILED: total failed packets (MPDUs)
+ * (u32, to this station)
* @NL80211_STA_INFO_SIGNAL_AVG: signal strength average (u8, dBm)
* @NL80211_STA_INFO_LLID: the station's mesh LLID
* @NL80211_STA_INFO_PLID: the station's mesh PLID