On Thursday 27 March 2008 21:47:43 Johannes Berg wrote: > 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 :) well, i'm going to - for whatever that means :) i have compile tested the current patch with all mac80211 based drivers, i believe and function tested with ath5k and iwl4965 - but lets give the driver authors some more time for feedback and review. also i'd like to integrate jean's suggestion that unspec doesn't have to be linear. bruno -- 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
