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

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Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:07 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>
>> I definitely want to see this background scan support in Wireless
>> Extensions as well, otherwise it might prevent the real use of the
>> feature.
>
> However, the more feature we keep stuffing into WEXT the less incentive
> is there to actually do something about cfg80211. I'm with Luis here,
> the fact that there are no tools anywhere is because those tools aren't
> really very useful yet, not because it's not possible to get the tools
> in.

I understand yours and Luis' points. But I still think that we should
push cfg80211 acceptance first with the argument of more reliable
method of configure 80211 devices, and only later start adding
cfg80211-only features.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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