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On 1/2/2017 12:45 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-12-19 at 12:58 +0200, Lazar, Alexei Avshalom wrote:
> 
>>> What you're doing here is *extremely* vague. No definitions of what
>>> this means, no description of how it's intended to be implemented,
>>> no note even on whether or not this is for full-MAC chips or not,
>>> etc.
>>>
>>
>> The patch is intended for full-MAC chips and I will update the commit
>> message to include more details.
>>
>>> At least for mac80211, we can define signals to userspace regarding
>>> "link quality" and make decisions in wpa_s then?
>>>
>>
>> The policy is offloaded today to the FW and the decision being made
>> by the FW.
>> We are only modifying the behavior and not making the decision.
> 
> Fair enough, but I stand by saying that it's extremely vague - how
> could userspace possibly know what "level" to pick, if you don't give
> it any information about what the levels really mean?
> 
> johannes
> 

I have updated the commit message for clarifying what the levels really mean.

-- 
Alexei Lazar
Qualcomm Israel, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. 
The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project



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