Michael Wu wrote: > On Sunday 08 April 2007 01:04, Larry Finger wrote: >> In mac80211 the 'qual' and 'level' values are interchanged. The patch also >> places the 'qual' value on a 0 - 100 scale and calculated using the formula >> contained in iwlib. >> > NACK. Qual (arbitrary signal quality) and level (RSSI) values are correct and > userspace is responsible for scaling any statistics values.
I disagree. For the wireless extensions output, the maximum values are set implicitly in the iw_range struct. In addition, the level is always in dBm (a negative number), whereas the RSSI is an arbitrary positive number. Because the maximum value is driver dependent, it must be specified when the driver initializes the MAC layer. In any case, the current code is broken. Without my patch, an iwconfig command with bcm43xx-mac80211 produces the line: Link Quality=216/146 Signal level=-197 dBm Noise level=-63 dBm We could argue about the Link Quality, although the x/146 looks pretty strange. The Signal level of -197 dBm is impossible. With my patch, the same version of bcm43xx gets the line Link Quality=90/100 Signal level=-36 dBm Noise level=-69 dBm That Signal level matches what comes from both bcm43xx-softmac and the Windows driver running under ndiswrapper. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
