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

[L. Aaron Kaplan]

>>> 
>>> Are these not normally exposed in Android?
>> 
>> I don't know about Android specifically but in Linux there is a great need to have a uniform/standardized way to read out this information. Often enough, when/if you can get these values they are not comparable. Or for example one card will show signal strength but no noise value.
>> 
>> FYI:
>> Currently Henning is also implementing the DLEP draft (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-manet-dlep/) which aims at bringing radio layer information to the mesh router in a standardized way.
> 
> Ah ok.  My guess is that Google is very unlikely to tackle this problem.  From what I've seen, they want to stay out of dictating how Android vendors should build their kernels, let alone work in kernel interfaces like this.  My guess is that this effort should be aimed at the Linux kernel people.


Granted, we could try (again) with the linux wi-fi developers.

But my hope would be that google can at least recommend this to the manufacturers. This might have some weight.

With the topic being stuck between these two groups, communication always got stuck and things did not move the last couple of years.

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