Return-path: Received: from mx51.mymxserver.com ([85.199.173.110]:62393 "EHLO mx51.mymxserver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756041Ab0BROpi (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:45:38 -0500 From: Holger Schurig To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mac80211: deprecate RX status noise Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:41:45 +0100 Cc: Johannes Berg , Pavel Roskin , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Benoit PAPILLAULT , John Linville References: <1266437114.23447.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <1266447118.12365.21.camel@mj> <1266494831.6261.1.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <1266494831.6261.1.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Message-Id: <201002181541.45835.holgerschurig@gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Various hardware reports various bogus values, like iwlwifi for > example reporting the same noise value that it collected after > a beacon over and over again, or just reporting 127 when it had > no value. I'm not saying that I understand this completely, but for me it would make sense to disable iwlwifi's broken noise reporting only. No reason to disable it for everyone if some of them are broken. -- http://www.holgerschurig.de