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Subject: Re: Problem with BSS properties
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel () holtmann ! org>
Date: 2009-12-26 21:38:07
Message-ID: 1261863487.16627.87.camel () localhost ! localdomain
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Hi Sam,
> > The other thing are the quality and noise properties. Do you
> still want
> > these? Or can we just go for a signal property showing the
> dBm value
> > like iw scan does. I don't see any extra value in keeping
> deprecated
> > values in the new API.
>
>
> Please lets get rid of them. One signal strength value that
> could be
> trusted to contain some useful data is much better than three
> with
> semi-random values no one can figure out.. Quality has never
> been
> defined properly and noise is not even a property of a BSS (it
> is per
> channel and should not have been mixed with scan results in
> the first
> place).
>
>
> I think dropping noise floor is a bad idea unless you add another
> mechanism at the same time to get it (is there a mechanism in the new
> d-bus api?). The quality parameter has never been useful IMO and
> dropping it would make sense.
isn't the new survey API of nl80211 doing exactly this for you?
> > Do you think a "Display" or "Name" property showing the SSID
> in
> > converted UTF-8 would be useful. Or should the clients do
> that
> > translation?
>
>
> I would love to have this, but I do agree that it is next to
> impossible
> to get this right in all cases.
>
>
> I agree w/ not doing translation in the supplicant. In my world this
> work is part of the UI and unless we push state down into the
> supplicant it cannot do as good a job.
What state are you talking about? The concern here is to figure out the
locale the AP is potentially using. Even with a country IE available, it
is not guaranteed that it matches the locale of the SSID, but that might
be as close as it gets when guessing.
Regards
Marcel
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