On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 06:21 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Johannes, > > >> + NL80211_STA_INFO_SIGNAL, > >> + NL80211_STA_INFO_NOISE, > >> + NL80211_STA_INFO_QUAL, > > > > Sorry, no, this WEXT junk is just too undefined to put it into > > nl80211. > > I know that WEXT were pretty bad in describing what to expect from > these values and every driver did whatever it thought it would be > best. Can we not just try to define how these values should be filled > in and then either mark drivers as broken or try to fix them? Just an > idea. But it doesn't even physically make sense. The noise is not per station but rather per channel, if you know it at all. The "quality" is simply not defined, and would usually be "signal", unless you're doing something else to estimate "quality", like taking into account retransmissions, ... And then signal/noise should be in dBm. johannes
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