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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Simon Barber <simon@devicescape.com>
Cc: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>, John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Try 2: Add wireless statistics to d80211
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:17:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44EDED46.6090201@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C86180A8C204554D8A3323D8F6B0A29F0165B6E8@dhost002-46.dex002.intermedia.net>

Simon Barber wrote:
> Why have both signal and rssi measures?

In the bcm43xx driver, the values are different. There is a routine that converts from rssi as a 
positive number into signal in a negative number that looks like dBm. Because of the reverse 
engineering, we have no idea what the logic behind this is, but I thought that we should keep it.

Larry


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-24 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-24  3:02 [PATCH 1/4] Try 2: Add wireless statistics to d80211 Larry Finger
2006-08-24 11:59 ` Jiri Benc
2006-08-24 14:39   ` Larry Finger
2006-08-24 15:03     ` Jiri Benc
2006-08-24 17:45 ` Simon Barber
2006-08-24 18:17   ` Larry Finger [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-24 14:28 Larry Finger

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