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Re: [RFC V2 1/5] nl80211: allow reporting RTT information in scan results

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On Mon, 2016-11-28 at 21:07 +0100, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
> 
> I was wondering about the meaning of the term "parent_bssid". Given
> your remark it means something else than my guess. I actually meant
> the distance to the AP indicated by this BSS. Our gscan code obtains
> the gscan results from firmware and in that API it has RTT info. 

Oh, ok. Right, that's unrelated to the parent_bssid.

I do wonder how it'd even be possible to *determine* this though?
Perhaps by the ACK timing, assuming it's precise on the AP?

> However, recent testing revealed those fields are always coming up
> with zero values :-(

Heh :-)

> So right now I am not sure if we need this extension.

FWIW, we don't seem to have it.

johannes



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