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On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 15:36 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:

> Right. So realistically, writing this a bit more verbosely, you have
> 
> 1) rssi_preference, band_preference(band)
> 2) rssi_adjust(band, delta), rssi_preference
> 
> and perhaps
> 
> 3) rssi_preference
> 
> as the default?
> 
> As for 1), you said it was "band, rssi" but it seems you really meant
> the other way around since before you said "band" was a tie-breaker.
> 
> 
> Perhaps then, the API should just expose the two "primitives"
>  * band_preference(band)
>  * rssi_adjust(band, delta)?
> 

Which would basically map to cases (1) and (2) then.

johannes