From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Missing link quality with wireless-testing
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:01:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090218140138.GB10871@jm.kir.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1234961297.13950.55.camel@localhost>
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 07:48:17AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> Then mac80211 is not conforming to WEXT... unless it's setting
> IW_QUAL_DBM in the updated field, which it probably is.
It should have IW_QUAL_DBM set.
> Here's the relevant bit of wireless.h:
>
> /* Quality range (link, level, noise)
> * If the quality is absolute, it will be in the range [0 ; max_qual],
> * if the quality is dBm, it will be in the range [max_qual ; 0].
>
> That doc never got updated for IW_QUAL_DBM either.
Yeah, the max_qual=-110 does not seem to fit into that description.
> > The unknown values are not included anymore in wpa_supplicant 0.7.x.
>
> Just pulled; it doesn't show up in master. Do you have a separate git
> repo for 0.7.x?
0.7.x is in hostap.git and this change should be there:
http://w1.fi/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=hostap.git;a=commitdiff;h=7c2849d2a09c1ba3cbc2247f08baad2e929464c1
I don't remember when I pushed that out, but anyway, it is there now.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-18 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-17 18:52 Missing link quality with wireless-testing Marcel Holtmann
2009-02-17 19:43 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-17 20:24 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-02-17 20:55 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-17 21:09 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-02-17 23:25 ` Dan Williams
2009-02-18 4:57 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-02-18 7:31 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-02-18 8:06 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-02-18 8:25 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-02-18 12:18 ` Dan Williams
2009-02-18 12:33 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-02-18 12:48 ` Dan Williams
2009-02-18 13:20 ` Dan Williams
2009-02-18 14:01 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2009-02-18 14:25 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-18 13:37 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-18 15:13 ` Dan Williams
2009-02-18 16:48 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-18 17:27 ` [PATCH] cfg80211/mac80211: fill qual.qual value/adjust max_qual.qual Johannes Berg
2009-02-18 17:29 ` Johannes Berg
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