From: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] d80211: Fix wireless statistics reporting
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:29:15 -0500
Cc: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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On Sunday 11 February 2007 23:09, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > -	int signal;
> > +	int signal; /* used as qual in statistics reporting */
>
> I'm sorry but that the thing I have always hated about wireless
> extensions.  Such tricks make the API context sensitive and loaded with
> assumptions.
>
Ok, but I was merely clarifying the current situation. That problem has alw=
ays=20
been there since the patch for statistics reporting went in.

> I understand d80211 still has to interact with Wireless Extensions, but
> let's not make things even worse.
I'm making things better. Statistics reporting is pretty bad right now in=20
d80211 with drivers reporting bogus values when they don't know, and=20
statistics reporting of different d80211 drivers interacting with each othe=
r=20
when multiple devices are plugged in. This patch attempts to fix the worst=
=20
issues while attempting to avoid regressions. Feel free to follow up with=20
another patch to make statistics reporting perfect.

=2DMichael Wu

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