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Re: Signal quality strange since commit 708c57cf1709fb95

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On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 01:07 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 22:18 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> > 
> >> 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%.
> > 
> > Well that _is_ a bug, since this shouldn't have required driver changes!
> > I'll take a look into why that might be happening.
> 
> Drivers b43, b43legacy, rtl8187, and p54usb all assume a Link Quality scaled to
> 100, which was the behavior before the commit in the subject. I don't quite
> understand why as the old code had this fragment:

Ahh. I see now, you're talking wireless_stats and I'm thinking scan
results. Yeah, I see what's going on, I'll fix it tomorrow.

johannes

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