Re: [RFC] mac80211: notify the user space about low signal quality

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:55:38AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> 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.

cfg80211-only features may be a great reason for people to move to
the new tools.  Considering how fragile WEXT has proven to be, I am
not at all in favor of continuing to extend it.

John
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