Return-path: Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.27]:53549 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750816AbYKYVB1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:01:27 -0500 Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 6so65329eyi.37 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:01:25 -0800 (PST) From: Henning Rogge To: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: RFC Patch: Add signal strength to nl80211station info Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:01:15 +0100 Cc: "linux-wireless" References: <200811252131.30161.hrogge@googlemail.com> <1227646037.4613.46.camel@johannes.berg> In-Reply-To: <1227646037.4613.46.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2921357.fljvdTknjm"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Message-Id: <200811252201.22704.hrogge@googlemail.com> (sfid-20081125_220133_172771_B36E7E9E) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --nextPart2921357.fljvdTknjm Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 sig= nal=20 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 overhe= ad=20 of cpu power (raw sockets + monitor mode + radiotap) Henning --nextPart2921357.fljvdTknjm 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) iEYEABECAAYFAkksZ6IACgkQcenvcwAcHWcMTgCeOG9j9kKlrEoLhY8EgkBRdDYs 4cMAn2Uq5TmzRruMABu/GZDSz6b55woP =vnVc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2921357.fljvdTknjm--