On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 23:29 -0500, Michael Wu wrote: > On Sunday 11 February 2007 23:09, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > > - int signal; > > > + int signal; /* used as qual in statistics reporting */ > > > > I'm sorry but that the thing I have always hated about wireless > > extensions. Such tricks make the API context sensitive and loaded with > > assumptions. > > > Ok, but I was merely clarifying the current situation. That problem has always > been there since the patch for statistics reporting went in. Sorry, I should have made it clear that my post was more a reaction to the comments than to the actual code changes. > > I understand d80211 still has to interact with Wireless Extensions, but > > let's not make things even worse. > I'm making things better. Statistics reporting is pretty bad right now in > d80211 with drivers reporting bogus values when they don't know, and > statistics reporting of different d80211 drivers interacting with each other > when multiple devices are plugged in. This patch attempts to fix the worst > issues while attempting to avoid regressions. Feel free to follow up with > another patch to make statistics reporting perfect. This effort is very much appreciated. I'll have a closer look if I see any issues after your patch is applied. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
