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Re: Missing link quality with wireless-testing

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On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 07:48:17AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:

> Then mac80211 is not conforming to WEXT...  unless it's setting
> IW_QUAL_DBM in the updated field, which it probably is.

It should have IW_QUAL_DBM set.

> Here's the relevant bit of wireless.h:
> 
>         /* Quality range (link, level, noise)
>          * If the quality is absolute, it will be in the range [0 ; max_qual],
>          * if the quality is dBm, it will be in the range [max_qual ; 0].
> 
> That doc never got updated for IW_QUAL_DBM either.

Yeah, the max_qual=-110 does not seem to fit into that description.

> > The unknown values are not included anymore in wpa_supplicant 0.7.x.
> 
> Just pulled; it doesn't show up in master.  Do you have a separate git
> repo for 0.7.x?

0.7.x is in hostap.git and this change should be there:
http://w1.fi/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=hostap.git;a=commitdiff;h=7c2849d2a09c1ba3cbc2247f08baad2e929464c1

I don't remember when I pushed that out, but anyway, it is there now.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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