Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. >From my point of view WE is not on life support (yet) but instead very widely used. As an example, I still haven't seen any cfg80211/nl80211 user space tools in debian unstable. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) There has been a lot of talk about cfg80211/nl80211 but unfortunately the migration progress has been very slow. I definitely want to see this background scan support in Wireless Extensions as well, otherwise it might prevent the real use of the feature. -- Kalle Valo -- 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
