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Re: [PATCH] rtl8187: Remove deprecated 'qual' from returned RX status

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On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 05 November 2009 20:21:39 Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
>> > +                * is derived from the AGC. The arbitrary scaling constants
>> >                 * are chosen to make the results close to the values obtained
>> >                 * for a BCM4312 using b43 as the driver. The noise is ignored
>
> It's not really a good idea to take b43 for reference, because the values/scales
> are chosen pretty arbitrarily in that driver. So you basically end up
> with an arbitrary^2 value.
>
> --
> Greetings, Michael.
>

Well, onee needs to start from something... many users, bug reporters
have often quoted 'I used driver/device X and it shows 90% strength,
yours shows 60%..." and vice versa. They don't know the numbers are
made up in both drivers, just differently :-).

Hin-Tak
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