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From: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
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Jiri Benc wrote:
> 
> The whole signal reporting in WE looks like a mess to me. It seems that
> no renaming could help here, I'm afraid - the names you consider better
> others consider worse.
> 
> Let's leave it as is, and return to it when converting mac80211 to use
> cfg80211. With a bit of luck it would be no issue then :-)

I have already decided to leave the whole mess alone. I will patch bcm43xx-mac80211 to conform to 
what is currently in mac80211 so that reasonable values are seen by the users.

Larry