On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 12:19:57PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 10:17:09PM +0200, Mateusz Kulikowski wrote:
> > As far as I know (radio) noise is rarely above 0 dBm - if it is, you're doing something wrong.
> > This means we can just change rtllib_rx_stats::noise to s8.
>
> I think it's hard to do that because these definitions are part of the
> user space API.
>
> include/uapi/linux/wireless.h
>
> linux-wireless is not on the CC list so we will never know for sure.
>
> There are still a bunch of these warnings.
>
> drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_wx.c:271 rtl8180_wx_get_range() warn: assigning (-78) to unsigned variable 'range->avg_qual.level'
> drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c:914 r8711_wx_get_range() warn: assigning (-78) to unsigned variable 'range->avg_qual.level'
> drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c:6817 ipw2100_wx_get_range() warn: assigning (-78) to unsigned variable 'range->avg_qual.level'
> drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ioctl.c:1023 prism2_ioctl_giwrange() warn: assigning (-60) to unsigned variable 'range->avg_qual.level'
> drivers/net/wireless/prism54/isl_ioctl.c:451 prism54_get_range() warn: assigning (-80) to unsigned variable 'range->avg_qual.level'
>
> drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c:4493 rtl8192_rx_nomal() warn: assigning (-98) to unsigned variable 'stats.noise'
> drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c:4605 rtl8192_rx_cmd() warn: assigning (-98) to unsigned variable 'stats.noise'
> drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_wx.c:266 rtl8180_wx_get_range() warn: assigning (-98) to unsigned variable 'range->max_qual.noise'
> drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_wx.c:1323 r8192_get_wireless_stats() warn: assigning (-100) to unsigned variable 'wstats->qual.noise'
> drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c:2322 rtl8192_rx_normal() warn: assigning (-98) to unsigned variable 'stats.noise'
> drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ioctl.c:1024 prism2_ioctl_giwrange() warn: assigning (-95) to unsigned variable 'range->avg_qual.noise'
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
Added the linux-wireless guys in the CC list so that they can comment on
this.