From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org
Subject: [ath9k-devel] avg-signal is weird in ath9k in 3.3.0
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:11:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F6938EF.3080205@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F690340.5090102@openwrt.org>
On 03/20/2012 03:22 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2012-03-20 8:47 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
>> I'm testing out some code to get a stations's avg-signal through ethtool-stats,
>> and both it and /proc/net/wireless show ranges bouncing all over
>> (from around -48 to -110) on an interface running heavy traffic.
>>
>> Are there any known bugs in 3.3.0 related to this?
> As far as I know, this bug has always been there (RSSI values for A-MPDU
> subframes are invalid, except for the last subframe).
> I've sent fixes for this, which will show up in 3.4
I found the two patches and they apply cleanly to 3.3.0, and it
does appear to fix the problem.
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org" <ath9k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net>
Subject: Re: avg-signal is weird in ath9k in 3.3.0
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:11:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F6938EF.3080205@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F690340.5090102@openwrt.org>
On 03/20/2012 03:22 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2012-03-20 8:47 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
>> I'm testing out some code to get a stations's avg-signal through ethtool-stats,
>> and both it and /proc/net/wireless show ranges bouncing all over
>> (from around -48 to -110) on an interface running heavy traffic.
>>
>> Are there any known bugs in 3.3.0 related to this?
> As far as I know, this bug has always been there (RSSI values for A-MPDU
> subframes are invalid, except for the last subframe).
> I've sent fixes for this, which will show up in 3.4
I found the two patches and they apply cleanly to 3.3.0, and it
does appear to fix the problem.
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-21 2:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-20 19:47 [ath9k-devel] avg-signal is weird in ath9k in 3.3.0 Ben Greear
2012-03-20 19:47 ` Ben Greear
2012-03-20 20:46 ` [ath9k-devel] " Ben Greear
2012-03-20 20:46 ` Ben Greear
2012-03-20 22:22 ` [ath9k-devel] " Felix Fietkau
2012-03-20 22:22 ` Felix Fietkau
2012-03-21 2:11 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2012-03-21 2:11 ` Ben Greear
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