Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f209.google.com ([209.85.218.209]:33032 "EHLO mail-bw0-f209.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751447Ab0CSGjY (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:39:24 -0400 Received: by bwz1 with SMTP id 1so2698548bwz.21 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:39:22 -0700 (PDT) To: Juuso Oikarinen Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHv3 1/2] cfg80211: Add connection quality monitoring support to nl80211 References: <1268830877-5162-1-git-send-email-juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> <1268830877-5162-2-git-send-email-juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> From: Kalle Valo Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:39:19 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1268830877-5162-2-git-send-email-juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> (Juuso Oikarinen's message of "Wed\, 17 Mar 2010 15\:01\:16 +0200") Message-ID: <87eijgddd4.fsf@purkki.valot.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Juuso Oikarinen writes: > Add support for basic configuration of a connection quality monitoring to the > nl80211 interface, and basic support for notifying about triggered monitoring > events. > > Via this interface a user-space connection manager may configure and receive > pre-warning events of deteriorating WLAN connection quality, and start > preparing for roaming in advance, before the connection is already lost. Sorry, I have been busy lately (over 500 unread emails in linux-wireless, doh!) and I haven't had time to look at your patches in detail. But I want to emphasise that in the future we want to extend this interface with new events like beacon loss or retransmissions. From a quick look your patches make this possible and that's good. -- Kalle Valo