From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Signal quality strange since commit 708c57cf1709fb95
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:30:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1235316628.28069.2.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8763j33rgq.fsf@litku.valot.fi>
On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 08:39 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> writes:
>
> > I know how it works with drivers that implement their own ioctl
> > calls for the WEXT interface; however, the 3 that I mentioned all
> > use mac80211 and get their WEXT support through cfg80211.
>
> Yes, something is wrong now. I noticed the same problem (/70 in signal
> strength) when I was implementing rssi support for at76c50x-usb.
The /70 *by itself* is not a problem. There could be a problem with the
quality calculation that cfg80211/mac80211 are doing with the reported
signal strength from the hardware-specific driver.
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-22 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-21 15:09 Signal quality strange since commit 708c57cf1709fb95 Larry Finger
2009-02-21 18:44 ` Dan Williams
2009-02-21 20:04 ` Larry Finger
2009-02-22 6:39 ` Kalle Valo
2009-02-22 15:30 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2009-02-24 2:10 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-24 4:18 ` Larry Finger
2009-02-24 5:16 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-24 7:07 ` Larry Finger
2009-02-24 7:13 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-27 17:45 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-27 21:24 ` Larry Finger
2009-02-27 21:48 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-22 15:32 ` Dan Williams
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