On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 01:44:09PM -0700, npoojary@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Paul Stewart <pstew@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > The signal strength number tells only half of the picture with > respect to signal quality. The other half is the prevailing > noise on the channel. The two together indicate how easily the > interface is able to pull data out of the background noise. > > This change takes noise into account, by calculating a CQM > threshold based both on the RSSI and noise. This noise value is > available in the CQM events as well as polled data. Since most > background scan algorithms will probably want to do this the same > way, I have added this as routines in bgscan.c that can be > utilized by individual background scan mechanisms. > > Additionally, I've modified bgscan_simple to use this mechanism, > and scheduled noisefloor updates to happen at the same rate as > background scans (the noisefloor should be a slowly changing > parameter). > > This patch also includes changes to the background scan procedure > to make background scans low priority and resume aborted scans from > frequencies that haven't been scanned yet. > > --- Could you please read the top level CONTRIBUTIONS file and resubmit this patch with the Signed-off-by: line added to the end of the commit message so that I could consider applying this? In addition, I cannot accept this old license statement: > diff --git a/wpa_supplicant/bgscan_i.h b/wpa_supplicant/bgscan_i.h > new file mode 100644 > index 000000000..39ffdc48e > --- /dev/null > +++ b/wpa_supplicant/bgscan_i.h > @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ > +/* > + * WPA Supplicant - background scan and roaming interface > + * Copyright (c) 2009-2010, Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx> > + * > + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as > + * published by the Free Software Foundation. > + * > + * Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of BSD > + * license. > + * > + * See README and COPYING for more details. > + */ hostap.git does not use GPLv2 and I won't be adding any GPL licensed code into the repository. Could you please use the current license terms used in other files, i.e., only the BSD license? * This software may be distributed under the terms of the BSD license. * See README for more details. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
