Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] nl80211/mac80211: Report signal average
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:17:39 +0100
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On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 14:06 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 07:12:43PM +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote:
> > Extend nl80211 to report an exponential weighted moving average (EWMA) of the
> > signal value. Since the signal value usually fluctuates between different
> > packets, an average can be more useful than the value of the last packet.
> > 
> > This uses the recently added generic EWMA library function.
> > 
> > --
> > v2:	fix ABI breakage and change factor to be a power of 2.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
> 
> Jouni and Johannes, are you satisfied with this version?

Yeah, I think with the v2 of the lib improvement it should be fine.

johannes