From: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
To: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Report correct wireless statistics
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 19:02:07 -0400
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
	John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>, Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
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On Monday 09 April 2007 17:12, Larry Finger wrote:
> The code is internally consistent. Now it is only the usage of the (r)ssi
> name to describe the logarithmic numbers that is confusing. Would you
> entertain a patch that changed (r)ssi to level in the structs and drivers
> to reduce the confusion? I have such a patch that works with
> bcm43xx-mac80211. In addition, all other drivers compile.
>
Absolutely - it is confusing since dBm can also be specified in addition to=
=20
RSSI. Renaming signal to qual or something along those lines would also be=
=20
useful IMHO, but if you're okay with it as it stands, I don't mind it.

=2DMichael Wu

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