Tomas Winkler wrote:
Those are really bad names. __signal__ is not meaning a value __signal level__ or __signal strength__ means value __level__ is too general to describes anything RSSI on other hand is well defined. Maybe it's too hw/vendor dependent to use in stack but at least its names says what it is. Quality should be a relative number depends on maxim I don't think this renaming make things clearer Tomas
Perhaps my names are bad; however, the existing system is broken. With it, passing the rssi value and the signal strength from bcm43xx-mac80211 results the following output from iwconfig: "Link Quality=216/146 Signal level=-197 dBm Noise level=-63 dBm". In bcm43xx-softmac, the code in the driver is identical and results in "Link Quality=90/100 Signal level=-36 dBm Noise level=-69 dBm".
When I proposed a patch to fix mac80211, Michael Wu NACKed it and requested the name changes I propose here. I don't care what names things get, but it needs to be fixed!
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