From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:49761 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757996Ab0BROsu (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:48:50 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mac80211: deprecate RX status noise From: Johannes Berg To: Holger Schurig Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Pavel Roskin , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Benoit PAPILLAULT , John Linville In-Reply-To: <201002181541.45835.holgerschurig@gmail.com> References: <1266437114.23447.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <1266447118.12365.21.camel@mj> <1266494831.6261.1.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <201002181541.45835.holgerschurig@gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-LgxzbBFt7WsMrj5x289i" Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:48:47 +0100 Message-ID: <1266504527.6261.2.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-LgxzbBFt7WsMrj5x289i Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 15:41 +0100, Holger Schurig wrote: > > Various hardware reports various bogus values, like iwlwifi for > > example reporting the same noise value that it collected after > > a beacon over and over again, or just reporting 127 when it had > > no value.=20 >=20 > I'm not saying that I understand this completely, but for me it=20 > would make sense to disable iwlwifi's broken noise reporting=20 > only. No reason to disable it for everyone if some of them are=20 > broken. Well it's kinda bound to be broken elsewhere too because we don't even know how various devices gather the values. With iwlwifi at least we know how it gets the value. johannes --=-LgxzbBFt7WsMrj5x289i Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJLfVNMAAoJEODzc/N7+QmakJgP/REs7ezihKknWitTWpy3aF3g q9tGHyk3kzFWUUxpgLFXbCukL5eIKVFM2ZzB9lmijenOQn9Zxb+nq/EFEnlDT2PL iHLigImOxHth4N+1vYcqtw7hE7PuVwDk5ZuK3QcBqITA1oZQHjgGPKEpZMQFIpyp Zd0x0ZUPzvRQ2Nxu0Evbtc0iBFpLRzPouQKxwkI8wVXewmvzDaGtbY4GrGdDvIJc +mLm9wO/5L+2Lns33HqyCIsfflKqk601hrGsnw4b+J8kl+SkRvWEIjxs03OD+V0d z40sgDvz+54pMW+SV66R9gx2Gff/fIbxVJU0FWhNZWBkF7i99EFTSenP8ECFAJhg y5bys8MGCHdzpiMZJdJ1mFy8eOXouBr2zL5wqxmghESQ7DbX6JMJlS4eAodFxSf5 R1HzLLjlE7JHDSfnVKcVSMdQzFogn42jO/JeHk8IIxXhI7n08+/e1pe27dpWlzFR CuAQYYeYt+fO9LyCetHs7feCTuOZ8Oyltqv+aQVa2PfGewFX4hQq0Sscx66ZBu4s pcu+UhN+LszQtoUo3U7Y/taOND89HfSItO8C220UjFGXesGU/+F75ccFlFy5D396 C+TCgdyN8SfnPYrQ42Z8bGGumU4Ot+zlPzSX2tqN9t2eDGHdnLwpRGtnOjMtpd+g 5FiVMHBRmB59H9v26X37 =N3Su -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-LgxzbBFt7WsMrj5x289i--