In commit c6dc001 "staging: r8712u: Merging Realtek's latest (v2.6.6).
Various fixes", the returned qual.qual member of the iw_statistics
struct was changed. For strong signals, this change made no difference;
however for medium and weak signals it results in a low signal that
shows considerable fluctuation, When using wicd for a medium-strength
AP, the value reported in the status line is reduced from 100% to 60% by
this bug.
This problem is reported in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42826.
Reported-and-tested-by: Robert Crawford <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c | 8 +-------
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
index 507584b8..ef35bc2 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
@@ -2380,13 +2380,7 @@ static struct iw_statistics *r871x_get_wireless_stats(struct net_device *dev)
tmp_qual = padapter->recvpriv.signal;
tmp_noise = padapter->recvpriv.noise;
piwstats->qual.level = tmp_level;
- /*piwstats->qual.qual = tmp_qual;
- * The NetworkManager of Fedora 10, 13 will use the link
- * quality for its display.
- * So, use the fw_rssi on link quality variable because
- * fw_rssi will be updated per 2 seconds.
- */
- piwstats->qual.qual = tmp_level;
+ piwstats->qual.qual = tmp_qual;
piwstats->qual.noise = tmp_noise;
}
piwstats->qual.updated = IW_QUAL_ALL_UPDATED;
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1.7.7