On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 13:59 +0000, Cristian Morales Vega wrote: > I don't have a device using a driver with IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC > to test, but because of > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commitdiff;h=19deffbeba930030cfaf000b920333c6ba99ad52 > I guess nl80211 will report the NL80211_STA_INFO_SIGNAL even if the > driver doesn't uses dBm, true? > Looking at http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/24814 > it seems this wasn't wanted. Bug, the check for > IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM is done elsewhere or finally it was decided > that the signal strength should be reported even if the units are > unknown? Huh, yes, the nl80211 reporting here was intended to be dBm as documented in the header file, so John's commit does look like a bug. John, can you revert that please? The "unspec" signal strength thing is used only in NL80211_BSS_SIGNAL_UNSPEC, i.e. the signal strength reported in scan results. If we want/need it in station information as well we need to add a separate attribute. johannes -- 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
