On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 21:30 +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote: > trying to clean up the signal/noise mess. the previous code in mac80211 did > not have much definition of what units of signal and noise were provided and > used weird implicit mechanisms from the wireless extensions. > > introduce hardware capability flags to let the hardware specify if it can > provide signal and noise level values and which units it can provide: > > IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC - unspecified, unknown, hw specific > IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB - dB difference to unspecified reference point > IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM - dBm, difference to 1mW > > IEEE80211_HW_NOISE_DBM - dBm, difference to 1mW > > also clean up the misleading and confusing names which were used for signal, > noise and qual before. I have to admit to not particularly caring about these things, so if you're willing to accept responsibility for all breakage I'm ok with the patch going in :) johannes
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