From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Pedersen <c_tpeder@qca.qualcomm.com>,
<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>, <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
<ath6kl-devel@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] nl80211: specify RSSI threshold when scanning
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 20:50:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD0E9EA.4090704@qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1339084251.2434.2.camel@dcbw.foobar.com>
On 06/07/2012 06:50 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 19:43 -0700, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
>> Support configuring an RSSI threshold in dBm (s32) when scanning,
>> below which a BSS won't be reported by the cfg80211 driver.
>
> What's the point of this? Shouldn't the driver report all available
> APs, even if the signal is small, and then userspace (or whatever is
> handling scan results) just ignores ones it doesn't care about?
When you do this on the firmware you can reduce host wakeups and hence
save power.
Kalle
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-07 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-07 2:43 [RFC 1/2] nl80211: specify RSSI threshold when scanning Thomas Pedersen
2012-06-07 2:43 ` [RFC 2/2] mac80211: support rssi threshold scan Thomas Pedersen
2012-06-07 7:25 ` Kalle Valo
2012-06-09 8:09 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-09 22:03 ` Pedersen, Thomas
2012-06-10 8:11 ` Kalle Valo
2012-06-07 7:23 ` [RFC 1/2] nl80211: specify RSSI threshold when scanning Kalle Valo
2012-06-07 18:38 ` Pedersen, Thomas
2012-06-07 18:53 ` Kalle Valo
2012-06-07 19:18 ` Pedersen, Thomas
2012-06-09 8:09 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-10 9:50 ` Luciano Coelho
2012-06-07 15:50 ` Dan Williams
2012-06-07 17:50 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2012-06-11 5:39 ` Luciano Coelho
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