Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: notify the user space about low signal quality
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:12:07 +0200
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On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:07 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:

> 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.
>=20
> 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.

johannes

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