Re: [PATCHv3] cfg80211: add support for frequency interference event

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 09:20 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 17:35 +0100, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > >> + * @interference_source: enum nl80211_freq_interference_source_type
> > >> + *   is used to specify source of interference.
> > >
> > > Do we expect that different sources would be treated differently? If
> > > not, what use is this?
> > 
> > That was because of my nagging, without such a field the type of
> > interference would be completely ambiguous and we'd have no users on
> > the Linux kernel of this API,
> 
> Wait, we have no users for this API? Forget it then - I thought you were
> going to post a patch soon. I guess I should have learned by now not to
> trust QCA with this.
> 
> I'll drop this until I see a patch using it.

You can see this as a carrot (or stick, depending on how you look at it)
for upstreaming the driver that wants it.

johannes