From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, javier@cozybit.com,
dan.carpenter@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] {nl,cfg,mac}80211: Implement RSSI threshold for mesh peering
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 14:33:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120306193350.GA3353@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331061810-4100-1-git-send-email-ashok@cozybit.com>
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 11:23:30AM -0800, Ashok Nagarajan wrote:
> Mesh peer links are established only if average rssi of the peer
> candidate satisfies the threshold. This is not in 802.11s specification
> but was requested by David Fulgham, an open80211s user. This is a way to avoid
> marginal peer links with stations that are barely within range.
>
> This patch adds a new mesh configuration parameter, mesh_rssi_threshold. This
> feature is supported only for hardwares that report signal in dBm.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
> ---
> v3:
> use s32 instead of int32_t (Kalle Valo)
> Feature to be supported for devices reporting signal in dBm (Johannes)
>
> v4:
> Fix potential null pointer deferencing (Dan Carpenter)
I already merged v3 yesterday -- can you rework this as a fix instead?
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-07 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-06 19:23 [PATCH v4] {nl,cfg,mac}80211: Implement RSSI threshold for mesh peering Ashok Nagarajan
2012-03-06 19:33 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2012-03-07 13:56 ` John W. Linville
2012-03-06 20:45 ` Ashok Nagarajan
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