From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
Helmut Schaa <hschaa@suse.de>, Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: notify the user space about low signal quality
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:55:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873ak0zcz9.fsf@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1221552727.8916.19.camel@johannes.berg> (ext Johannes Berg's message of "Tue\, 16 Sep 2008 10\:12\:07 +0200")
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:
> On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:07 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>
>> I definitely want to see this background scan support in Wireless
>> Extensions as well, otherwise it might prevent the real use of the
>> feature.
>
> However, the more feature we keep stuffing into WEXT the less incentive
> is there to actually do something about cfg80211. I'm with Luis here,
> the fact that there are no tools anywhere is because those tools aren't
> really very useful yet, not because it's not possible to get the tools
> in.
I understand yours and Luis' points. But I still think that we should
push cfg80211 acceptance first with the argument of more reliable
method of configure 80211 devices, and only later start adding
cfg80211-only features.
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-16 10:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-15 12:16 More thoughts about roaming Helmut Schaa
2008-09-15 12:29 ` [RFC] Implement basic background scanning Helmut Schaa
2008-09-15 14:32 ` Michael Buesch
2008-09-15 14:40 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-15 15:59 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-15 16:35 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-16 8:43 ` Kalle Valo
2008-09-16 9:10 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-16 9:20 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-16 11:06 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-16 9:15 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-09-15 12:35 ` [RFC] mac80211: notify the user space about low signal quality Helmut Schaa
2008-09-15 14:07 ` Dan Williams
2008-09-15 14:34 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-15 15:28 ` Dan Williams
2008-09-15 16:45 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-16 1:21 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-09-16 7:41 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-16 8:07 ` Kalle Valo
2008-09-16 8:12 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-16 8:55 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2008-09-23 18:21 ` John W. Linville
2008-09-16 8:00 ` Kalle Valo
2008-09-16 7:57 ` Kalle Valo
2008-09-15 15:10 ` Holger Schurig
2008-09-15 15:19 ` Dan Williams
2008-09-16 8:25 ` Kalle Valo
2008-09-16 8:50 ` Holger Schurig
2008-09-16 9:25 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-16 9:32 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-16 10:23 ` Holger Schurig
2008-09-15 15:17 ` Holger Schurig
2008-09-16 7:53 ` Kalle Valo
2008-09-15 12:41 ` [RFC] wpa_supplicant: trigger a scan if signal quality is low Helmut Schaa
2008-09-15 13:59 ` More thoughts about roaming Dan Williams
2008-09-15 14:18 ` Helmut Schaa
2008-09-15 14:45 ` Dan Williams
2008-09-16 7:09 ` Kalle Valo
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