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From: "Lazar, Alexei Avshalom" <ailizaro@codeaurora.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, wil6210@qca.qualcomm.com
Subject: Re: cfg80211: add set/get link loss profile
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 12:58:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58a1b983-6688-8b3e-81cb-83c62b46abbf@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1480344742.8107.63.camel@sipsolutions.net>

On 11/28/2016 4:52 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
>> Introduce NL80211_CMD_SET_LINK_LOSS_PROFILE and
>> NL80211_CMD_GET_LINK_LOSS_PROFILE as it required by the user space
>> to configure the link loss profile.
> 
> I'm not convinced.
> 
>> The link loss profile represents the priority of maintaining link up
>> in different link quality environments.
>> Three types of behavior for link loss defined:
>> LINK_LOSS_PROFILE_RELAXED: prefer maintaining link up even in poor
>> link quality environment.
>> LINK_LOSS_PROFILE_DEFAULT: The default behavior for maintaining link
>> up vs link quality.
>> LINK_LOSS_PROFILE_AGGRESSIVE: prefer losing link up in poor link
>> quality environment.
> 
> What you're doing here is *extremely* vague. No definitions of what
> this means, no description of how it's intended to be implemented, no
> note even on whether or not this is for full-MAC chips or not, etc.
> 

The patch is intended for full-MAC chips and I will update the commit
message to include more details.

> At least for mac80211, we can define signals to userspace regarding
> "link quality" and make decisions in wpa_s then?
> 

The policy is offloaded today to the FW and the decision being made by the FW.
We are only modifying the behavior and not making the decision.

> 
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/cfg80211.c
> 
> Those changes obviously don't belong into this patch anyway.
> 
> johannes
> 


-- 
Alexei Lazar
Qualcomm Israel, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. 
The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-19 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-10 11:33 cfg80211: add set/get link loss profile Lazar, Alexei Avshalom
2016-11-10 13:55 ` Kalle Valo
2016-11-17 13:50   ` Lazar, Alexei Avshalom
2016-11-18 11:05     ` Kalle Valo
2016-12-19 10:58       ` Lazar, Alexei Avshalom
2016-12-19 10:58       ` [PATCH v2] " Lazar, Alexei Avshalom
2016-12-20 17:00         ` Dan Williams
2017-03-06 13:54           ` [PATCH v3] " Lazar, Alexei Avshalom
2017-03-29  9:01             ` Johannes Berg
2016-11-28 14:52 ` Johannes Berg
2016-12-19 10:58   ` Lazar, Alexei Avshalom [this message]
2017-01-02 10:45     ` Johannes Berg
2017-03-06 13:54       ` Lazar, Alexei Avshalom

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