linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] w35und: fix registration with wlan stack

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Message-Id: <1233308511.4161.23.camel@johannes.local>
Date:	Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:41:51 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Sandro Bonazzola <sandro.bonazzola@...il.com>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Bruno Randolf <br1@...fach.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] w35und: fix registration with wlan stack

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 10:38 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > > >  	dev->channel_change_time = 1000;
> > > > +	dev->max_signal = 100;
> > > 
> > > And the IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC and ->max_signal from commit
> > > 566bfe5a8bcde13188a356f77666f8115813cf31 ("mac80211: use hardware flags
> > > for signal/noise units"). Lets cc Bruno.
> > 
> > Seems reasonable, though does it would be good to see if it can do DBM,
> > which we very very much prefer.
> 
> Well, currenlty it reports all zeros...

In that case you shouldn't do this patch to avoid userspace getting
bogus values.

johannes

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