Return-path: Received: from mail-ee0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:52349 "EHLO mail-ee0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757147Ab2FZIFd (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2012 04:05:33 -0400 Received: by eeit10 with SMTP id t10so1497210eei.19 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 01:05:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FE96D48.9080901@gmail.com> (sfid-20120626_100540_194649_6E54065D) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:05:28 +0200 From: sylvain_gmail MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kalle Valo CC: Victor Goldenshtein , Johannes Berg , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: add command to get current rssi References: <1337669130-4229-1-git-send-email-victorg@ti.com> <4FE85430.3030007@gmail.com> <87y5nb34bm.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> In-Reply-To: <87y5nb34bm.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: it can be very useful when you installed multiple polarization antennas. For each polarization picks up the signal on a different axis. For example for a dual polarization antenna, you have a horizontal polarization and vertical polarization. Regards, Sylvain Le 25/06/2012 15:32, Kalle Valo a ?crit : > sylvain_gmail writes: > >> But do not you think it would be interesting to have a function that >> returns the RSSI signal by antennas? > Just out of interest, how would user space use that information? Do you > have any ideas? >