From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 31-rc3-mmotm0716 - wonky wireless statistics..
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:40:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <30110.1249357220@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:19:12 +0200." <1248851953.13742.12.camel@johannes.local>
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On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:19:12 +0200, Johannes Berg said:
> > > # cat /proc/net/wireless
> > > Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets | Missed | WE
> > > face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt frag retry misc | beacon | 22
> > > wlan0: 0000 63. -47. -256 0 0 0 0 0
> > > wlan1: 0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> > > wlan2: 0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> and since we have dBm for the signal strength (and dBm is "all or
> nothing") you get -256 since we don't fill noise right now.
>
> However, it goes on like this:
> stats->qual.updated & IW_QUAL_NOISE_UPDATED ? '.' : ' '
>
> so you're right -- the tool shouldn't be using the value unless followed
> by a dot (".").
OK, went back and checked a -mmotm0702 kernel, and there I see:
cat /proc/net/wireless
Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets | Missed | WE
face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt frag retry misc | beacon | 22
wlan0: 0000 64. -46. -127. 0 0 0 0 0 0
wlan1: 0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
wlan2: 0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
so yes, it appears that the userspace program (gkrellm-wifi) is failing to
notice the lack of a trailing '.'. Looks like I need to write a patch and push
it upstream, make it do something sensible with the S/N ratio when N is
missing. Too bad probably no easy way to compute an estimate based on the level
and link-quality values....
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-28 21:01 31-rc3-mmotm0716 - wonky wireless statistics Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-07-29 1:31 ` Zhu Yi
2009-07-29 7:19 ` Johannes Berg
2009-08-04 3:40 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
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