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From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
To: "Helmut Schaa" <hschaa@suse.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: notify the user space about low signal quality
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:00:55 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdwwzfig.fsf@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809151845.35841.hschaa@suse.de> (ext Helmut Schaa's message of "Mon\, 15 Sep 2008 18\:45\:35 +0200")

Helmut Schaa <hschaa@suse.de> writes:

> Ok, I'll sum that up. Moving the policy into user space is a good
> thing if the quality values are comparable. Once mac80211 recognices
> a noticable quality change we could use IWEVQUAL to notify user
> space about it. Furthermore (if desired) the signal could be
> extended to not only report a value between 0 and 100 but could also
> contain flags indicating lost beacons, excessive retries etc.

I guess that would work.

-- 
Kalle Valo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-16  8:01 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
2008-09-23 18:21                   ` John W. Linville
2008-09-16  8:00           ` Kalle Valo [this message]
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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