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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Missing link quality with wireless-testing
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:24:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1234902294.4678.12.camel@californication> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1234899806.29785.35.camel@johannes.local>

Hi Johannes,

> > I have been running the wireless-testing kernel from yesterday and I
> > realized that something with the link quality values from scanning
> > results is broken.
> 
> What exactly is broken by this? Wext never guaranteed that 'qual' values
> be present, and thus any application that breaks from not having 'qual'
> is broken anyway.

that be it, but I would still consider this a regression. Since when do
we just start removing API details without any proper warning or grace
period?

Regards

Marcel



  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-17 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-17 18:52 Missing link quality with wireless-testing Marcel Holtmann
2009-02-17 19:43 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-17 20:24   ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2009-02-17 20:55     ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-17 21:09       ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-02-17 23:25         ` Dan Williams
2009-02-18  4:57           ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-02-18  7:31             ` Jouni Malinen
2009-02-18  8:06               ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-02-18  8:25                 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-02-18 12:18                   ` Dan Williams
2009-02-18 12:33                     ` Jouni Malinen
2009-02-18 12:48                       ` Dan Williams
2009-02-18 13:20                         ` Dan Williams
2009-02-18 14:01                         ` Jouni Malinen
2009-02-18 14:25                         ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-18 13:37                     ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-18 15:13                       ` Dan Williams
2009-02-18 16:48                         ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-18 17:27 ` [PATCH] cfg80211/mac80211: fill qual.qual value/adjust max_qual.qual Johannes Berg
2009-02-18 17:29   ` Johannes Berg

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