On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@xxxxxx> wrote: > Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>> I'm not saying that I understand this completely, but for me it >>> would make sense to disable iwlwifi's broken noise reporting >>> only. No reason to disable it for everyone if some of them are >>> broken. >> >> Well it's kinda bound to be broken elsewhere too because we don't even >> know how various devices gather the values. With iwlwifi at least we >> know how it gets the value. > > Also wl1251 is more or less broken related to noise reporting. I even > tried to find information how to use it properly but didn't get > anything. For Atheros its only busted since we don't distinguish noise per channel, but otherwise I can't think of anything bogus about it. Last time I looked into how its computed is it was calculated during SIFS time, but that was a while back and based on some patent stuff. Luis -- 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
