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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Missing link quality with wireless-testing
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:06:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1234944391.21412.47.camel@californication> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090218073104.GA23366@jm.kir.nu>

Hi Jouni,

> > > Would setting qual->updated |= IW_QUAL_QUAL_INVALID; work for you?  If
> > > some app doesn't handle that, it's totally, completely broken.
> > 
> > does wpa_supplicant handle this value correctly? I actually never
> > checked that.
> 
> No, it doesn't use qual->updated at all. Then again, neither does it
> rely on qual->qual either. The signal level (qual->level) is used first
> and only if that is not available, qual->qual will be used in sorting
> the results.

so it seems the missing value is affecting the details wpa_supplicant is
handing out via its D-Bus interface. I didn't check the code yet to see
what is actually happening or if I just happen to run an outdated
version.

Regards

Marcel



  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-18  8:06 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
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 [this message]
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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