Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com ([209.85.218.227]:49862 "EHLO mail-bw0-f227.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758581AbZKETnL (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:43:11 -0500 Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so364376bwz.21 for ; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:43:15 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200911052024.32608.mb@bu3sch.de> References: <4af26c2f.v0dYcKOlddHI9QEQ%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <3ace41890911051121u16c7de8cpb97d0be12cdd0aa6@mail.gmail.com> <200911052024.32608.mb@bu3sch.de> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:43:15 +0000 Message-ID: <3ace41890911051143x75151841k3bb5a1c3879bdb80@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtl8187: Remove deprecated 'qual' from returned RX status From: Hin-Tak Leung To: Michael Buesch Cc: Larry Finger , John W Linville , Hin-Tak Leung , Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Thursday 05 November 2009 20:21:39 Hin-Tak Leung wrote: >> > + * is derived from the AGC. The arbitrary scaling constants >> > * are chosen to make the results close to the values obtained >> > * for a BCM4312 using b43 as the driver. The noise is ignored > > It's not really a good idea to take b43 for reference, because the values/scales > are chosen pretty arbitrarily in that driver. So you basically end up > with an arbitrary^2 value. > > -- > Greetings, Michael. > Well, onee needs to start from something... many users, bug reporters have often quoted 'I used driver/device X and it shows 90% strength, yours shows 60%..." and vice versa. They don't know the numbers are made up in both drivers, just differently :-). Hin-Tak