From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC V2 1/5] nl80211: allow reporting RTT information in scan results
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 09:22:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1480494148.9990.33.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6f75b940-d0b1-1e9c-f286-3923089d202d@broadcom.com> (sfid-20161128_210801_345602_4774A658)
On Mon, 2016-11-28 at 21:07 +0100, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
>
> I was wondering about the meaning of the term "parent_bssid". Given
> your remark it means something else than my guess. I actually meant
> the distance to the AP indicated by this BSS. Our gscan code obtains
> the gscan results from firmware and in that API it has RTT info.
Oh, ok. Right, that's unrelated to the parent_bssid.
I do wonder how it'd even be possible to *determine* this though?
Perhaps by the ACK timing, assuming it's precise on the AP?
> However, recent testing revealed those fields are always coming up
> with zero values :-(
Heh :-)
> So right now I am not sure if we need this extension.
FWIW, we don't seem to have it.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-30 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-17 13:18 [RFC 0/5] nl80211: add support for g-scan Arend van Spriel
2016-11-17 13:18 ` [RFC V2 1/5] nl80211: allow reporting RTT information in scan results Arend van Spriel
2016-11-28 14:32 ` Johannes Berg
2016-11-28 20:07 ` Arend Van Spriel
2016-11-30 8:22 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2016-11-30 9:21 ` Arend Van Spriel
2016-11-17 13:18 ` [RFC V2 2/5] nl80211: add reporting of gscan capabilities Arend van Spriel
2016-11-17 13:18 ` [RFC V2 3/5] nl80211: rename some notification functions Arend van Spriel
2016-11-17 13:18 ` [RFC V2 4/5] nl80211: add support for gscan Arend van Spriel
2016-11-28 14:38 ` Johannes Berg
2016-11-28 20:47 ` Arend Van Spriel
2016-11-17 13:18 ` [RFC V2 5/5] nl80211: add driver api for gscan notifications Arend van Spriel
2016-11-17 14:39 ` [RFC 0/5] nl80211: add support for g-scan Johannes Berg
2016-11-17 20:23 ` Arend Van Spriel
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