[PATCH] roaming: get current RSSI

Holger Schurig hs4233 at mail.mn-solutions.de
Tue Sep 15 11:01:11 EDT 2009


On Tuesday 15 September 2009 16:39:49 Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:17:17PM +0200, Holger Schurig wrote:
> > Allows wpa_supplicant to fetch the RSSI from the WEXT and
> > NL80211 driver. This can be used in roaming code.
>
> Thanks! This looks otherwise reasonable, but the name of the
> operation "get_rssi" is quite confusing. The returned value
> seems to be something else than RSSI. In case of WEXT, I have
> no idea what the value would be with most drivers (qual field
> used?). In case of nl80211, the value seems to be received
> signal power in dBm from the last frame received from the AP.

So let's it simple rename to "get_signal" or "get_level" ??

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