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Re: [RFC] mac80211: notify the user space about low signal quality

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On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Helmut Schaa <hschaa@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ok, I'll sum that up. Moving the policy into user space is a good thing if the
> quality values are comparable. Once mac80211 recognices a noticable quality
> change we could use IWEVQUAL to notify user space about it. Furthermore (if
> desired) the signal could be extended to not only report a value between 0
> and 100 but could also contain flags indicating lost beacons, excessive retries
> etc.

If you are going to add a new sort of notification can you please use
nl80211? No need to keep wireless extensions on life support.

  Luis
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