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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Try 2: Add wireless statistics to d80211
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:17:42 -0500
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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