From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtl8187: Remove deprecated 'qual' from returned RX status
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:24:30 +0100
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	John W Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>,
	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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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.

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Greetings, Michael.