To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
	Helmut Schaa <hschaa@suse.de>, Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: notify the user space about low signal quality
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From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:55:38 +0300
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Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> 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