Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:4723 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756288AbYLFPql (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2008 10:46:41 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 39so252150ugf.37 for ; Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:46:39 -0800 (PST) From: Henning Rogge To: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: RFC Patch v2: Add signal strength to nl80211station info Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 16:46:30 +0100 Cc: Henning Rogge , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Luis Rodriguez , Marcel Holtmann , "linux-wireless" , "nbd@openwrt.org" References: <200811252131.30161.hrogge@googlemail.com> <1228575081.16752.8.camel@johannes.berg> <200812061603.21930.hrogge@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <200812061603.21930.hrogge@googlemail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart7730836.AxCZfb3EPf"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Message-Id: <200812061646.36044.hrogge@googlemail.com> (sfid-20081206_164648_599748_99FAED92) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --nextPart7730836.AxCZfb3EPf Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 06 December 2008 16:03:16 Henning Rogge wrote: > > I'd rename _TOTAL to _LEGACY and remove the calculation for MCS rates, > > that way it's obviously clear what you're getting in userland. Okay, after reading your mail a second time I understood you...=20 I think with removing the total bitrate for 802.11n we will just make the=20 userspace interface more complex. You will have to look at four different=20 things (flags, MCS, guard interval, legacy) just to get the bitrate, which= =20 will be the typical information the user wants to know. Is there anything=20 nl80211 will gain if we don't put this value inside for all 802.11 ? We can= not=20 drop it because of 802.11abg, so why not fill it with useful data ? Henning --nextPart7730836.AxCZfb3EPf 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) iEYEABECAAYFAkk6nlwACgkQcenvcwAcHWdNawCfQRbEsfgX0Dn2FRQ4cEsqwVFl gtwAnjQyFZRgPeKfBfMSXBIXNpVvmfpw =nasq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7730836.AxCZfb3EPf--