Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 14:06:31 -0500
From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Cc: randy.dunlap@oracle.com, br1@thinktube.com, peterz@infradead.org,
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        akpm@linux-foundation.org, kevin.granade@gmail.com,
        johannes@sipsolutions.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] nl80211/mac80211: Report signal average
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On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 07:12:43PM +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote:
> Extend nl80211 to report an exponential weighted moving average (EWMA) of the
> signal value. Since the signal value usually fluctuates between different
> packets, an average can be more useful than the value of the last packet.
> 
> This uses the recently added generic EWMA library function.
> 
> --
> v2:	fix ABI breakage and change factor to be a power of 2.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>

Jouni and Johannes, are you satisfied with this version?

John
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