From: Henning Rogge <hrogge@googlemail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "linux-wireless" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC Patch: Add signal strength to nl80211station info
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:01:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811252201.22704.hrogge@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1227646037.4613.46.camel@johannes.berg>
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On Tuesday 25 November 2008 21:47:17 Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 21:31 +0100, Henning Rogge wrote:
> > + NL80211_STA_INFO_SIGNAL,
> > + NL80211_STA_INFO_NOISE,
> > + NL80211_STA_INFO_QUAL,
>
> Sorry, no, this WEXT junk is just too undefined to put it into nl80211.
It was an experiment... the question is, what kind of information about signal
strength or SNR would be good enough to make it available to userspace.
At the moment there is no way to get this information without a huge overhead
of cpu power (raw sockets + monitor mode + radiotap)
Henning
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-25 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-25 20:31 RFC Patch: Add signal strength to nl80211station info Henning Rogge
2008-11-25 20:47 ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-25 21:01 ` Henning Rogge [this message]
2008-11-26 5:21 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-11-26 8:32 ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-26 16:17 ` Henning Rogge
2008-11-29 10:50 ` RFC Patch v2: " Henning Rogge
2008-12-01 11:17 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-01 13:22 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-01 17:39 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-12-01 17:45 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-12-01 17:53 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-02 13:25 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-02 20:29 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-12-02 20:46 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-03 1:44 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-12-03 10:31 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-04 8:47 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-04 9:48 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-04 13:02 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-04 20:26 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-04 21:12 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-12-04 21:20 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-05 8:34 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-05 9:45 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-05 9:51 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-05 9:54 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-05 23:26 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-06 9:15 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-06 11:12 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-06 14:10 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-06 14:43 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-06 14:51 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-06 15:03 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-06 15:46 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-06 15:59 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-06 16:08 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-06 20:46 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-12-07 17:32 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-07 17:39 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-07 18:17 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add signal strength and bandwith " Henning Rogge
2008-12-08 19:43 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-09 19:50 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-09 21:16 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-10 6:53 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-10 9:05 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-10 17:40 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-10 20:45 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-10 20:58 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-10 21:01 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-11 17:07 ` [Patch] nl80211: " Henning Rogge
2008-12-11 17:24 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-11 18:02 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-11 18:14 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-11 18:22 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-11 18:28 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-11 20:10 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-11 20:24 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-11 20:12 ` Henning Rogge
2008-12-11 20:23 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-09 19:54 ` [Patch 1/2 v2] " Henning Rogge
2008-12-09 19:58 ` [Patch 2/2 " Henning Rogge
2008-12-09 21:19 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-07 18:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Henning Rogge
2008-12-07 18:20 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Henning Rogge
2008-12-06 15:48 ` RFC Patch v2: Add signal strength " Johannes Berg
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