On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Helmut Schaa [off-list ref] wrote:

Ok, I'll sum that up. Moving the policy into user space is a good thing if the
quality values are comparable. Once mac80211 recognices a noticable quality
change we could use IWEVQUAL to notify user space about it. Furthermore (if
desired) the signal could be extended to not only report a value between 0
and 100 but could also contain flags indicating lost beacons, excessive retries
etc.

If you are going to add a new sort of notification can you please use
nl80211? No need to keep wireless extensions on life support.

  Luis