Re: [RFC] mac80211: notify the user space about low signal quality

[Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>]

Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Helmut Schaa <hschaa@suse.de> wrote:
>
>> Ok, I'll sum that up. Moving the policy into user space is a good
>> thing if the quality values are comparable. Once mac80211
>> recognices a noticable quality change we could use IWEVQUAL to
>> notify user space about it. Furthermore (if desired) the signal
>> could be extended to not only report a value between 0 and 100 but
>> could also contain flags indicating lost beacons, excessive retries
>> etc.
>
> If you are going to add a new sort of notification can you please use
> nl80211? No need to keep wireless extensions on life support.

>From my point of view WE is not on life support (yet) but instead very
widely used. As an example, I still haven't seen any cfg80211/nl80211
user space tools in debian unstable. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)
There has been a lot of talk about cfg80211/nl80211 but unfortunately
the migration progress has been very slow.

I definitely want to see this background scan support in Wireless
Extensions as well, otherwise it might prevent the real use of the
feature.

-- 
Kalle Valo