Return-path: Received: from styx.suse.cz ([82.119.242.94]:58390 "EHLO mail.suse.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1766722AbXDSOet (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:34:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:34:53 +0200 From: Jiri Benc To: Larry Finger Cc: John Linville , Michael Wu , Michael Buesch , bcm43xx-dev@berlios.de, wireless Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] mac80211 and drivers: Improve wireless statistics Message-ID: <20070419163453.5d792085@griffin.suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <46211955.4080006@lwfinger.net> References: <46211955.4080006@lwfinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:11:33 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > In wireless statistics reporting, three quantities related to the > signal are reported: "qual" (linear with the signal), > "level" (logarithmic), and "noise". In mac80211 and the drivers that > use it, the first two have a mixture of internal names for those > quantities. 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 :-) Thanks, Jiri -- Jiri Benc SUSE Labs