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Re: [PATCH] cfg80211/mac80211: fill qual.qual value/adjust max_qual.qual

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On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 18:27 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Due to various bugs in the software stack we end up having
> to fill qual.qual; level should be used, but wpa_supplicant
> doesn't properly ignore qual.qual, NM should use qual.level
> regardless of that because qual.qual is 0 but doesn't handle
> IW_QUAL_DBM right now.
> 
> So fill qual.qual with the qual.level value clamped to
> -110..-40 dBm or just the regular 'unspecified' signal level.
> This requires a mac80211 change to properly announce the
> max_qual.qual and avg_qual.qual values.

Forgot to mention .. with a little work we can move the entire iwrange
handling into cfg80211 -- happiness.

johannes

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