[Commotion-dev] convincing google to support ad-hoc mode

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On May 24, 2012, at 10:25 AM, L. Aaron Kaplan wrote:

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> On May 24, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
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>> Perhaps we should see about setting up a meeting with the Android development
>> team management to ensure they understand the importance of ad hoc mode for the
>> open source movement?
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> YES!!
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> That would be a great contribution. 
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> Aaron.
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> PS: while you are at it: please tell them that for good meshing we need the layer 2 parameters (RSSI, noise, SNR, biterror rate, etc.) as data readable from /proc or debugfs

Are these not normally exposed in Android?  I don't know much about this, so more info is needed to convince them.  Info like how to configure the kernel to support this, how common it is in other OSes (Ubuntu, Debian, etc.), potential hazards of including it, including possible privacy risks and things like that, and reasons why telecoms or manufacturers might be opposed, etc.

.hc