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Jean Tourrilhes authored
Quick summary : this patch build on the first part to offer two important new features : o Wireless Events o Wireless Cell Scanning Wireless Events are events generated by device, driver or the wireless subsystem. It allows for example a device to notify user space when it register to a new cell (roaming) or loose contact with the current Access Points. Currently, the other defined events include some configuration changes and packet drop due to excessive retries, more may come in the future. All those events are useful for MobileIP, V-Handoff and Ad-Hoc routing. Wireless Cell Scanning is a generic API to allow device/drive to report Wireless Cells discovered (including ESSID, frequency and QoS). This is similar to what is available in WindowsXP (except that it's compliant to Wireless Extensions). This patch has been submitted for review on this list a couple of time in January, has been on my web page since and used intensively by other people. It was rediffed to 2.5.6. Driver patches have been submitted to maintainers.
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