Re: [PATCH v2] driver_nl80211: report invalid signal and noise when info is unavailable

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Sorry for the late reply, this got lost in my inbox. In e.g.
wpa_supplicant_need_to_roam_within_ess, we consider RSSI >= 0 to be
"unspecified units (not in dBm)", and it's best to keep these all
consistent IMO. If we should actually be treating >= 0 RSSI values as
valid dBm values, then there should be a separate patch making all the
relevant changes at once. For the purpose of this patch, that seems
like an unnecessary (and potentially non-trivial) change in
functionality that isn't mentioned in the commit message anyway.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 1:31 AM Otcheretianski, Andrei
<andrei.otcheretianski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Matthew Wang <matthewmwang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 06:52
> > To: Otcheretianski, Andrei <andrei.otcheretianski@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Stern, Avraham <avraham.stern@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] driver_nl80211: report invalid signal and noise when
> > info is unavailable
> >
> > In wpa_bss_update_level, we should probably continue to check for
> > new_level < 0 as well as new_level > -WPA_INVALID_NOISE.
>
> Why? RSSI is in dbm's and 0 (and positive numbers) is a valid though unlikely value.
> We even actually may get it in some conductive environments.
>
> Andrei
>

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