[PATCH] wpa_supplicant: Add an option to disable SNR capping

[Ben Greear]

On 3/19/24 13:40, Chaitanya Tata wrote:
> When selecting a network the default behaviour of WPA supplicant is to
> prefer higher throughput, it does this by capping the SNR.
> 
> But in certain environments, reliability is important over throughput
> and choosing a lower SNR (thought it is greater than "Great SNR") might
> be sub-optimal.
> 
> Introduce a configuration option to choose the two options (throughput
> or reliability).

Could you make this a run-time configurable instead of compile time option?

That seems a lot more flexible to me...

Thanks,
Ben

> 
> Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Tata <Chaitanya.Tata at nordicsemi.no>
> ---
>   wpa_supplicant/Makefile  |  4 ++++
>   wpa_supplicant/defconfig | 11 +++++++++++
>   wpa_supplicant/scan.h    | 10 ++++++++++
>   3 files changed, 25 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/wpa_supplicant/Makefile b/wpa_supplicant/Makefile
> index ce1c8b2e3..dc3dbf0ca 100644
> --- a/wpa_supplicant/Makefile
> +++ b/wpa_supplicant/Makefile
> @@ -1877,6 +1877,10 @@ ifdef CONFIG_NO_TKIP
>   CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_NO_TKIP
>   endif
>   
> +ifdef CONFIG_NW_SEL_RELIABILITY
> +CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_NW_SEL_RELIABILITY
> +endif

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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com