Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:51687 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754259Ab0LGTPe (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2010 14:15:34 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 14:06:31 -0500 From: "John W. Linville" To: Bruno Randolf Cc: randy.dunlap@oracle.com, br1@thinktube.com, peterz@infradead.org, blp@cs.stanford.edu, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lars_Ericsson@telia.com, j@w1.fi, stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kevin.granade@gmail.com, johannes@sipsolutions.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] nl80211/mac80211: Report signal average Message-ID: <20101207190631.GE2700@tuxdriver.com> References: <20101202101231.22988.33396.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> <20101202101242.22988.56087.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20101202101242.22988.56087.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 Jouni and Johannes, are you satisfied with this version? John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.