Re: [ath9k-devel] improve operational ANI in Mesh mode

[Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de>]

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Hey Adrian,

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 08:31:25AM -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Well, ANI does adjust some of its parameters based on the beacon
> signal level. It uses that as an estimate for how "strong" the signal
> is likely to be and tunes the baseband to either be highly sensitive
> or slightly on the deafer side.
> 
> If you have many sources of beacons (read: ibss, mesh, TDMA in my
> case) then that particular feature of ANI can't be used and it should
> be disabled. The code should be special casing it.
> 
> I suggest someone writes a bunch of test functions:
> 
> * whether we see no beacons (ie, AP mode)
> * whether we see one set of beacons (ie, STA mode)
> * whether we see multiple sets of beacons (ie ,everything else)

this sounds useful - and easier to maintain than checking each
IFTYPE seperately (we add iftypes after all ...).

Maybe Felix knows more about this? He has ported ANI as far as I know. :)

Cheers,
	Simon

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