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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: remove HW_SIGNAL_DB

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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:13:06AM -0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Giving the signal in dB isn't much more useful to userspace
> than giving the signal in unspecified units. This removes
> some radiotap information for zd1211 (the only driver using
> this flag), but it helps a lot for getting cfg80211-based
> scanning which won't support dB, and zd1211 being dB is a
> little fishy anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bruno Randolf <bruno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

We should be able to convert zd1211rw to use dBm anyway, we shall
release a new "vendor driver" for it which I think has some bits for this.
Just need to get around to it.

  Luis
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