Johannes Berg wrote: > On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 08:39 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: >> Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> I know how it works with drivers that implement their own ioctl >>> calls for the WEXT interface; however, the 3 that I mentioned all >>> use mac80211 and get their WEXT support through cfg80211. >> Yes, something is wrong now. I noticed the same problem (/70 in signal >> strength) when I was implementing rssi support for at76c50x-usb. > > Ok, so what exactly is the problem here? > > I intentionally changed it to be /70 rather than /100 so I didn't have > to do *100/70 in kernel space, and tools should cope with that (and > users too); is there a problem with how the XX (XX/70) gets calculated? No, I just wondered if it was intentional that it was changed to /70. It appears that it was, therefore, at least 3 drivers must be changed as they are calculating on the basis of /100. For example, my b43 is showing an iwconfig Link Quality of 93/70 while the KNM applet is showing 50%. Larry -- 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
