> So why does this need a new event? Can't wpa_supplicant > monitor the signal quality (or level/noise if the driver > doesn't provide "quality") and do what it needs to do without > any changes to the kernel at all? It could, but to do this, wpa_supplicant (or whatever) would have to periodically get awake, send the query command to mac80211 and get the result. With an event, it just sits sleeping until some interesting event arrives. Nicer programming idiom, AFAIK. -- 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
