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Re: RFC Patch: Add signal strength to nl80211station info

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On Tuesday 25 November 2008 21:47:17 Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 21:31 +0100, Henning Rogge wrote:
> > +	NL80211_STA_INFO_SIGNAL,
> > +	NL80211_STA_INFO_NOISE,
> > +	NL80211_STA_INFO_QUAL,
>
> Sorry, no, this WEXT junk is just too undefined to put it into nl80211.
It was an experiment... the question is, what kind of information about signal 
strength or SNR would be good enough to make it available to userspace.

At the moment there is no way to get this information without a huge overhead 
of cpu power (raw sockets + monitor mode + radiotap)

Henning

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