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From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Jouni Malinen <Jouni.Malinen@Atheros.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] mac80211_hwsim: report fixed signal strength
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:13:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090710181324.GA7493@jm.kir.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1247237819.29747.3.camel@johannes.local>

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 04:56:59PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> There's no reason to think that hwsim has any
> actual signal strength, but for testing it is
> very useful to have it report _some_ value to
> the stack so I can see if the value ends up
> being reported correctly

> Anyone have any objections? I'm not sure -- but it's still useful at
> least for me testing the upper layers.

At some point, we might even get to simulating (e.g., by a user space
app) signal strength more properly, but for now, this looks fine to me.

-- 
Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA

      reply	other threads:[~2009-07-10 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-10 14:56 [PATCH/RFC] mac80211_hwsim: report fixed signal strength Johannes Berg
2009-07-10 18:13 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]

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