state: bridge SSID tx_failed/tx_retries gap on mt76 and ath11k#92
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mt76 (mt7621/mt7915) and ath11k (QSDK) drivers do not propagate per-STA TX status to mac80211. As a result, ssid.counters.tx_failed and ssid.counters.tx_retries always report 0 even under heavy traffic. Each driver tracks comparable RF-only retry/fail counters in its own debugfs: mt76: /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/<phy>/mt76/tx_stats (BA miss count) ath11k: /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/<phy>/ath11k/htt_stats (tx_xretry) Read whichever path the phy's driver exposes and project the failure count onto each VAP, weighted by tx_packets share. The existing generate_deltas pipeline populates ssid.delta_counters automatically. Verified on yuncore_ax820 (mt76) and yuncore_fap655 (ath11k) with live Kafka showing nonzero tx_failed/tx_retries. Signed-off-by: Firas Shaari <firas@80211networks.com>
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Problem
mt76 (mt7621/mt7915) and ath11k (QSDK) drivers do not propagate per-STA TX status to mac80211. The Kafka state payload always reports:
Fix
Each driver tracks RF-only retry/fail counters in its own debugfs:
/sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/<phy>/mt76/tx_stats/sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/<phy>/ath11k/htt_stats(type 1)Both represent unicast frames whose ACK never arrived.
wifi.ucnow reads whichever path matches the phy's driver and projects the count onto each VAP weighted by tx_packets share. The existinggenerate_deltaspipeline populatesdelta_countersautomatically.No new schema fields — existing fields just stop being zero.
Verification
Tested on yuncore_ax820 (mt76) and yuncore_fap655 (ath11k). Both show monotonically increasing nonzero tx_failed/tx_retries in live Kafka.
Related wlan-ap-side local patch: Telecominfraproject/wlan-ap#1101
Signed-off-by: Firas Shaari firas@80211networks.com