Re: [PATCH] bgscan: Add centralized signal_monitor

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Jouni et al,
I just emailed an updated patchfile with the 'Signed-off-by:' added to
the commit message, and the license statement fixed for bgscan_i.h.
Let me know if you have any questions/comments. Thanks.

On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 7:22 AM Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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

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