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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rt2x00: Fix max_rssi values signedness bug
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:18:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1172020729.6042.2.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702202102.14354.mb@bu3sch.de>

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 21:02 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> char is not signed on all architectures.
> This fixes a compiletime warning and bug on PPC.

Then we have a bigger problem.  Please see include/net/d80211.h:

> /* Maximum values for various statistics.
>  * Leave at 0 to indicate no support. Use negative numbers for dBm. */
> char max_rssi;
> char max_signal;
> char max_noise;

So, there will be no dBm on PowerPC.  I think those fields should be
"signed char".

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin


  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-21  1:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-20 20:02 [PATCH] rt2x00: Fix max_rssi values signedness bug Michael Buesch
2007-02-21  1:18 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2007-02-21  1:25   ` Michael Wu
2007-02-21  1:47     ` Pavel Roskin

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