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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.

Johannes Berg committed 11 years ago

Commit 8d791361 parent a76b1942 files · +21 −15Browse files

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include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h+15−9
@@ -2338,18 +2338,24 @@ enum nl80211_sta_bss_param { · 2337 unmodified lines
23382338 *
23392339 * @__NL80211_STA_INFO_INVALID: attribute number 0 is reserved
23402340 * @NL80211_STA_INFO_INACTIVE_TIME: time since last activity (u32, msecs)
2341− * @NL80211_STA_INFO_RX_BYTES: total received bytes (u32, from this station)
2342− * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BYTES: total transmitted bytes (u32, to this station)
2343− * @NL80211_STA_INFO_RX_BYTES64: total received bytes (u64, from this station)
2344− * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BYTES64: total transmitted bytes (u64, to this station)
2341+ * @NL80211_STA_INFO_RX_BYTES: total received bytes (MPDU length)
2342+ * (u32, from this station)
2343+ * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BYTES: total transmitted bytes (MPDU length)
2344+ * (u32, to this station)
2345+ * @NL80211_STA_INFO_RX_BYTES64: total received bytes (MPDU length)
2346+ * (u64, from this station)
2347+ * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BYTES64: total transmitted bytes (MPDU length)
2348+ * (u64, to this station)
23452349 * @NL80211_STA_INFO_SIGNAL: signal strength of last received PPDU (u8, dBm)
23462350 * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BITRATE: current unicast tx rate, nested attribute
23472351 * containing info as possible, see &enum nl80211_rate_info
2348− * @NL80211_STA_INFO_RX_PACKETS: total received packet (u32, from this station)
2349− * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_PACKETS: total transmitted packets (u32, to this
2350− * station)
2351− * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_RETRIES: total retries (u32, to this station)
2352− * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_FAILED: total failed packets (u32, to this station)
2352+ * @NL80211_STA_INFO_RX_PACKETS: total received packet (MSDUs and MMPDUs)
2353+ * (u32, from this station)
2354+ * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_PACKETS: total transmitted packets (MSDUs and MMPDUs)
2355+ * (u32, to this station)
2356+ * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_RETRIES: total retries (MPDUs) (u32, to this station)
2357+ * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_FAILED: total failed packets (MPDUs)
2358+ * (u32, to this station)
23532359 * @NL80211_STA_INFO_SIGNAL_AVG: signal strength average (u8, dBm)
23542360 * @NL80211_STA_INFO_LLID: the station's mesh LLID
23552361 * @NL80211_STA_INFO_PLID: the station's mesh PLID