From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>,
linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/3] nl80211/mac80211: Report signal average
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:05:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CED6212.4070500@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290615890.3790.14.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
On 11/24/2010 08:24 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 12:00 +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote:
>> Extend nl80211 to report an exponential weighted moving average (EWMA) of the
>> signal value. Since the signal value usually fluctuates between different
>> packets, an average can be more useful than the value of the last packet.
>>
>> This uses the recently added generic EWMA library function.
>
> John, please revert this patch ASAP -- it completely messed up some ABI,
> and the performance discussion is also not over yet.
Just so I understand: Is the ABI issue because the netlink enum
was added in the middle, or are there other ABI problems?
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-24 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-12 3:00 [PATCH v7 0/3] Generic exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) Bruno Randolf
2010-11-12 3:00 ` [PATCH v7 1/3] Add generic exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) function Bruno Randolf
2010-11-12 3:00 ` [PATCH v7 2/3] ath5k: Use generic EWMA library Bruno Randolf
2010-11-12 3:00 ` [PATCH v7 3/3] nl80211/mac80211: Report signal average Bruno Randolf
2010-11-16 9:37 ` Jouni Malinen
2010-11-17 8:28 ` Bruno Randolf
2010-11-17 16:16 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-17 23:11 ` Bob Copeland
2010-11-19 8:49 ` Bruno Randolf
2010-11-19 14:04 ` Stefan Richter
2010-11-22 2:41 ` Bruno Randolf
2010-11-22 7:26 ` Stefan Richter
2010-11-19 17:52 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-22 2:36 ` Bruno Randolf
2010-11-19 9:07 ` Bruno Randolf
2010-11-19 12:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-19 22:28 ` Bob Copeland
2010-11-19 23:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-02 8:12 ` Bruno Randolf
2010-11-19 18:58 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-22 18:46 ` John W. Linville
2010-11-20 16:45 ` Brian Prodoehl
2010-11-24 16:24 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-24 19:05 ` Ben Greear [this message]
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