Re: [PATCH 0/4] mac80211 and drivers: Improve wireless statistics

[Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>]

Tomas Winkler wrote:
> Those are really bad names.
> __signal__ is not meaning a value __signal level__ or __signal
> strength__ means value
> __level__ is too general to describes anything
> RSSI on other hand is well defined. Maybe it's too hw/vendor dependent
> to use in stack
> but at least its names says what it is.
> Quality should be a relative number depends on maxim
> I don't think this renaming make things clearer
> Tomas

Perhaps my names are bad; however, the existing system is broken. With it, passing the rssi value 
and the signal strength from bcm43xx-mac80211 results the following output from iwconfig: "Link 
Quality=216/146  Signal level=-197 dBm  Noise level=-63 dBm". In bcm43xx-softmac, the code in the 
driver is identical and results in "Link Quality=90/100  Signal level=-36 dBm  Noise level=-69 dBm".

When I proposed a patch to fix mac80211, Michael Wu NACKed it and requested the name changes I 
propose here. I don't care what names things get, but it needs to be fixed!

Larry