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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:24:25 +0700
Subject: [ath9k-devel] Unrealistic RSSI values being reported
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On 2011-11-23 9:14 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Ok, cool. So I was right. :)
> 
> Yes, the nice solution would be to expose those aggregate frame
> boundary delimiters to userland and then only marking those frames
> with valid RSSI .. well, somehow.
> 
> The nicer solution would be to buffer those frames in an aggregate and
> then assign them all a common RSSI. But ew.
No need to buffer them in the driver, just do a lookahead on the DMA
ring. If necessary, defer processing until the last part of the
aggregate has been completed.

- Felix