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Subject: Re: cfg80211: add set/get link loss profile
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Lazar, Alexei Avshalom" <ailizaro@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, wil6210@qca.qualcomm.com
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 11:45:31 +0100
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On Mon, 2016-12-19 at 12:58 +0200, Lazar, Alexei Avshalom wrote:

> > What you're doing here is *extremely* vague. No definitions of what
> > this means, no description of how it's intended to be implemented,
> > no note even on whether or not this is for full-MAC chips or not,
> > etc.
> > 
> 
> The patch is intended for full-MAC chips and I will update the commit
> message to include more details.
> 
> > At least for mac80211, we can define signals to userspace regarding
> > "link quality" and make decisions in wpa_s then?
> > 
> 
> The policy is offloaded today to the FW and the decision being made
> by the FW.
> We are only modifying the behavior and not making the decision.

Fair enough, but I stand by saying that it's extremely vague - how
could userspace possibly know what "level" to pick, if you don't give
it any information about what the levels really mean?

johannes