[PATCH 0/2] wifi: mac80211: make the phy tpt LED indicate real traffic

[Salah Ahmed]

An access point's phy throughput LED currently counts frames that are never
delivered to any local interface, and keeps blinking on the broadcast an idle AP
bridges, so it cannot answer the only question a user asks of it: is anything
actually being transferred?

Patch 1 counts the trigger from delivered data only, moving the RX accounting
past BSS/interface matching in the rx path. Patch 2 keeps the LED resting in its
baseline state below a small idle threshold, so the residual broadcast of a
zero-client AP no longer produces the slowest blink step forever.

Both were exercised on ath9k (QCA9563) and ath10k (QCA9888) access points,
including a zero-client idle-solid battery and a link-flap battery over several
weeks of production uptime.

Salah Ahmed (2):
  wifi: mac80211: count the tpt LED trigger from delivered data only
  wifi: mac80211: keep the tpt LED solid below an idle threshold

 net/mac80211/led.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 net/mac80211/rx.c  |  7 ++-----
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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