From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.36.123.2]:50127 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755857AbZA3QvM (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:51:12 -0500 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.108]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:51:12 -0800 Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:50:26 -0800 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Johannes Berg CC: John Linville , linux-wireless , Bruno Randolf Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: remove HW_SIGNAL_DB Message-ID: <20090130165026.GD6534@tesla> (sfid-20090130_175119_356018_31B88CD7) References: <1233310386.4161.25.camel@johannes.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: <1233310386.4161.25.camel@johannes.local> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:13:06AM -0800, Johannes Berg wrote: > Giving the signal in dB isn't much more useful to userspace > than giving the signal in unspecified units. This removes > some radiotap information for zd1211 (the only driver using > this flag), but it helps a lot for getting cfg80211-based > scanning which won't support dB, and zd1211 being dB is a > little fishy anyway. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg > Cc: Bruno Randolf We should be able to convert zd1211rw to use dBm anyway, we shall release a new "vendor driver" for it which I think has some bits for this. Just need to get around to it. Luis