Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.188]:31153 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752068AbYKZQRf (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:17:35 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d3so297361nfc.21 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:17:33 -0800 (PST) From: Henning Rogge To: Marcel Holtmann Subject: Re: RFC Patch: Add signal strength to nl80211station info Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:17:23 +0100 Cc: Johannes Berg , "linux-wireless" References: <200811252131.30161.hrogge@googlemail.com> <1227646037.4613.46.camel@johannes.berg> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart6204339.uXbYelB3JS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Message-Id: <200811261717.30452.hrogge@googlemail.com> (sfid-20081126_171740_770350_5AAF4846) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --nextPart6204339.uXbYelB3JS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 26 November 2008 06:21:40 Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Johannes, > > >> + 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. > > I know that WEXT were pretty bad in describing what to expect from > these values and every driver did whatever it thought it would be > best. Can we not just try to define how these values should be filled > in and then either mark drivers as broken or try to fix them? Just an > idea. That would be a great thing... it's not that I really need the noise level = (or=20 the quality value), I was just testing how easy I can push values through=20 nl80211 into userspace. The layer 1/2 data I'm looking for is signalstrengt= h=20 and transmission rate for each adhoc communication partner. And I still thi= nk=20 the mac80211 stack is missing some easy way to get them at the moment. Henning --nextPart6204339.uXbYelB3JS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkktdpoACgkQcenvcwAcHWdyqACcDzz8Qn8dJ1V7UQrjIkH/py8W QEAAnjK39SoJ4fzmEEJUxcmcTE519QZQ =gSc0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart6204339.uXbYelB3JS--