From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:37817 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752252Ab1KFNP0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Nov 2011 08:15:26 -0500 Received: by bke11 with SMTP id 11so3019713bke.19 for ; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:15:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 14:15:15 +0100 From: Steffen Barszus To: Devin Heitmueller Cc: James , linux-media Mailing List Subject: Re: femon signal strength Message-ID: <20111106141515.5b56a377@grobi> In-Reply-To: References: <4EA78E3C.2020308@lockie.ca> <4EA86366.1020906@lockie.ca> <4EA86668.6090508@lockie.ca> <20111105111050.5b8762fa@grobi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 15:38:50 -0400 Devin Heitmueller wrote: > On Saturday, November 5, 2011, Steffen Barszus > wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:58:32 -0400 > > James wrote: > >> How about adding switches to femon, it won't be automatic? > >> > >> I'm going to make femon work for my card, anyways. :-) > > > > This is no solution - drivers should be patched to deliver result in > > common format. femon is not the only application reading this > > values. And every application carrying its own set of correction > > tables doesn't help in any way. Shouldn't be to hard to agree on > > one scale and scale whatever value to that in reporting the signal > > strength. > > You would think this would be relatively simple to get a consensus on. > You would be wrong though. I would suggest doing a search of the ML > for "SNR" so you can see all. the history of the debate amongst the > driver developers. I don't need to read the history of this and i am not even interested in doing so. No matter what "The right solution" is, showing the inability of acting as a team and putting the conflict to the user is the worst solution you can achieve. Any uniform scale is better, then whats there at the moment. Being ignorant in this respect is and was intended.