Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:57697 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751214AbYLARx1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:53:27 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 39so2743922ugf.37 for ; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:53:26 -0800 (PST) From: Henning Rogge To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Subject: Re: RFC Patch v2: Add signal strength to nl80211station info Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 18:53:16 +0100 Cc: Henning Rogge , Johannes Berg , Marcel Holtmann , "linux-wireless" , nbd@openwrt.org References: <200811252131.30161.hrogge@googlemail.com> <200812011422.30671.rogge@fgan.de> <20081201173948.GD5992@tesla> In-Reply-To: <20081201173948.GD5992@tesla> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2709015.YEA7tJ1iW4"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Message-Id: <200812011853.22318.hrogge@googlemail.com> (sfid-20081201_185331_506538_4D96C96E) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --nextPart2709015.YEA7tJ1iW4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 01 December 2008 18:39:48 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > It would be nice to get this figured out before adding it. We got random > complaints from users claiming 802.11n wasn't working before because > iwconfig didn't report a good rate. Users will trust it so I'd rather > see this go in with MCS rate figured out as part of the API to avoid > such reports. Would it be possible for you to work on that? > This might come in handy: > > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/ieee80211/802.11n#= MC >SRates I will look at it... thank you for the link. > What you need then is the guard interval, the MCS rate index and the > number of streams being used for communication. > Also how about we add a last TX rate and last RX rate so we get both? Sounds like a good idea... have to look at the code of mac80211 a little bi= t=20 more (I just copied the TX-rate thing from the wext code), but I really lik= e=20 the idea. Henning --nextPart2709015.YEA7tJ1iW4 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) iEYEABECAAYFAkk0JJIACgkQcenvcwAcHWfMPACfXNtVCtravTORyDYHNJGwm4vd ND4An0/TOdZPi/av8J8io3lBeMDe1zrX =Kyf3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2709015.YEA7tJ1iW4--