On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 17:35 +0100, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> + * @interference_source: enum nl80211_freq_interference_source_type > >> + * is used to specify source of interference. > > > > Do we expect that different sources would be treated differently? If > > not, what use is this? > > That was because of my nagging, without such a field the type of > interference would be completely ambiguous and we'd have no users on > the Linux kernel of this API, Wait, we have no users for this API? Forget it then - I thought you were going to post a patch soon. I guess I should have learned by now not to trust QCA with this. I'll drop this until I see a patch using it. > making anyone wonder WTF this is used > for, except for those poking on some random non upstream driver. > Additionally from a technical perspective having this information is > purely informative at this point given that hostapd would be expected > to be treating the cellular based source of interference as avoidance > hints. It does leave open, for example, drivers with other types of > future sources of advisories to simply piggy on top of this when the > source of interference is coming from the 802.11 devices somehow. I think we could also just document the kind of things it should be used for, rather than having a useless (and potentially fake, since nobody cares) value. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
