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Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: allow RSSI compensation

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On Sun, 2014-05-18 at 10:15 +0300, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> Channels in 2.4GHz band overlap, this means that if we
> send a probe request on channel 1 and then move to channel
> 2, we will hear the probe response on channel 2. In this
> case, the RSSI will be lower than if we had heard it on
> the channel on which it was sent (1 in this case).
> 
> The firmware / low level driver can parse the channel in
> the DS IE or HT IE and compensate the RSSI so that it will
> still have a valid value even if we heard the frame on an
> adjacent channel. This can be done up to a certain offset.
> 
> Add this offset as a configuration for the low level driver.
> A low level driver that can compensate the low RSSI in this
> case should assign the maximal offset for which the RSSI
> value is still valid.

Applied.

johannes

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