From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Bruno Randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: remove HW_SIGNAL_DB
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:50:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090130165026.GD6534@tesla> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233310386.4161.25.camel@johannes.local>
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:13:06AM -0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Giving the signal in dB isn't much more useful to userspace
> than giving the signal in unspecified units. This removes
> some radiotap information for zd1211 (the only driver using
> this flag), but it helps a lot for getting cfg80211-based
> scanning which won't support dB, and zd1211 being dB is a
> little fishy anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> Cc: Bruno Randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>
We should be able to convert zd1211rw to use dBm anyway, we shall
release a new "vendor driver" for it which I think has some bits for this.
Just need to get around to it.
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-30 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-30 10:13 [PATCH] mac80211: remove HW_SIGNAL_DB Johannes Berg
2009-01-30 16:50 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2009-01-30 17:50 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-01-30 20:37 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-30 20:37 ` Johannes Berg
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