From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "Vinita S. Maloo" <vmaloo@codeaurora.org>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nl80211: Add support to get BIP failure counters
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 18:28:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200731152702.GA15382@w1.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20d23075fb3437874a311ac18aa94194118a6e2b.camel@sipsolutions.net>
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 01:41:04PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-06-30 at 11:56 +0530, Vinita S. Maloo wrote:
> > Add support to get number of MIC errors, missing MME incidents and
> > packet replay incidents observed while using IGTK/BIGTK keys when
> > PMF and/or beacon protection features are enabled.
>
> I can imagine you need this for WFA tests, but why are the debugfs
> counters not enough for that?
>
> I don't really see much functional reason (wpa_supplicant or so) to have
> this, and thus why expose it in the nl80211 API?
Do we have a policy or some kind of preference on how to address dot11
statistics counters that can be handy at debugging real production use
error cases? For this particular case, is there objection to adding
support for fetching dot11RSNAStatsCMACReplays and
dot11RSNAStatsCMACReplays counter values?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-31 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-30 6:26 [PATCH] nl80211: Add support to get BIP failure counters Vinita S. Maloo
2020-07-30 11:41 ` Johannes Berg
2020-07-31 15:28 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2020-09-17 10:10 ` Johannes Berg
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