From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>,
John W Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>,
Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtl8187: Remove deprecated 'qual' from returned RX status
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:56:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AF3743D.3050401@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911052024.32608.mb@bu3sch.de>
On 11/05/2009 01:24 PM, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Thursday 05 November 2009 20:21:39 Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
>>> + * is derived from the AGC. The arbitrary scaling constants
>>> * are chosen to make the results close to the values obtained
>>> * for a BCM4312 using b43 as the driver. The noise is ignored
>
> It's not really a good idea to take b43 for reference, because the values/scales
> are chosen pretty arbitrarily in that driver. So you basically end up
> with an arbitrary^2 value.
When I did that, b43 was the only other device that I had available.
As Hin-Tak said, one has to start somewhere. As we all know, only
relative values are significant, and the absolute value has little
meaning.
Larry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-06 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-05 6:09 [PATCH] rtl8187: Remove deprecated 'qual' from returned RX status Larry Finger
2009-11-05 19:21 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-11-05 19:24 ` Michael Buesch
2009-11-05 19:43 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-11-06 0:56 ` Larry Finger [this message]
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