From: Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@computer.org>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] mac80211: Add more ethtools stats: survey, rates, etc
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:56:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F871756.80002@computer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F870828.4020708@candelatech.com>
Ben Greear wrote:
> Ethtool stats only supports u64. I think it's easy enough for
> humans or programs to add the negative sign. Can signal or noise
> ever be > 0? If so, that could actually break something that depends
> on flipping the value to negative....
The unit of these quantities is dBm, right? So if the {signal|noise} is
greater than 1mW the corresponding value in dBm would be positive.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-12 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-12 16:32 [PATCH 0/5] Add ethtool stats support for Wireless Devices greearb-my8/4N5VtI7c+919tysfdA
2012-04-12 16:32 ` [PATCH 1/5] cfg80211: Add framework to support ethtool stats greearb
2012-04-12 16:32 ` [PATCH 2/5] mac80211: Support getting sta_info stats via ethtool greearb
2012-04-12 16:32 ` [PATCH 3/5] mac80211: Framework to get wifi-driver " greearb
[not found] ` <1334248375-22967-1-git-send-email-greearb-my8/4N5VtI7c+919tysfdA@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-12 16:32 ` [PATCH 4/5] mac80211: Add more ethtools stats: survey, rates, etc greearb-my8/4N5VtI7c+919tysfdA
2012-04-12 16:42 ` Florian Fainelli
2012-04-12 16:51 ` Ben Greear
2012-04-12 17:56 ` Jan Ceuleers [this message]
[not found] ` <4F870828.4020708-my8/4N5VtI7c+919tysfdA@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-12 19:30 ` Ben Hutchings
[not found] ` <1334259053.2497.18.camel-/LGg1Z1CJKReKY3V0RtoKmatzQS1i7+A3tAM5lWOD0I@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-12 20:46 ` Ben Greear
2012-04-12 21:05 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-04-12 21:21 ` Ben Greear
2012-04-12 19:53 ` Georgiewskiy Yuriy
2012-04-13 22:01 ` Ben Greear
2012-04-12 16:32 ` [PATCH 5/5] mac80211: Add sta_state to ethtool stats greearb
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