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Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 10:14:23 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] wifi: ath12k: fix the issue that calculation of ack
 signal strength
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>, Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>
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From: Lingbo Kong <quic_lingbok@quicinc.com>
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On 2024/5/16 23:58, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com> writes:
> 
>> On 5/10/2024 8:09 PM, Lingbo Kong wrote:
>>
>> Your subject doesn't quite make sense.
>>
>> Perhaps something like: fix ack signal strength calculation
>>
>>> Currently, the calculation of ack signal strength is incorrect.
>>>
>>> This is because before calculating the ack signal strength, ath12k need
>>> to determine whether the hardware and firmware support db2dbm, if the
>>
>> please split this run-on sentence, s/, if/. If/
>>
>>> hardware and firmware support db2dbm, do not need to add noise floor,
>>> otherwise, need to add noise floor.
>>>
>>> Besides, the value of ack_rssi passed by firmware to ath12k should be a
>>> signed number, so change its type to s8.
>>>
>>> This patch affects QCN9274 and WCN7850 because they have the same issue.
>>>
>>> Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.0.c5-00481-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-3
>>> Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.0.1-00029-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Lingbo Kong <quic_lingbok@quicinc.com>
>>
>> Code LGTM & Kalle can fix my comments in pending so don't respin unless there
>> are additional comments.
> 
> Fixed Jeff's comments. I also removed both db2dbm variables, I felt that
> they were not necessary. Please check:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath.git/commit/?h=pending&id=c7b6d4df1ac8427ac758f35b7c1aa641fa8df75f
> 

kalle, thank you very much:)