On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:54:55AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 10:17 -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> > > But shouldn't you trust the drivers using IW_QUAL_DBM, whether the value
> > > is positive or negative?
> >
> > You can't remove the test, making the rest pointeless.
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 10:17 -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> > But shouldn't you trust the drivers using IW_QUAL_DBM, whether the value
> > is positive or negative?
>
> You can't remove the test, making the rest pointeless. Old
> style driver never used the flags, new style driver that don't
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 11:32:12PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 10:28 -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> >
> > There are still quite a few drivers which have not been
> > converted to use IW_QUAL_DBM, so I don't want to drop the backward
> > compatibility yet.
>
> But shoul
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 10:28 -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> I tried to use 'signed' in the struct a long while ago, and
> for some reason it broke left and right, I don't remember the
> details. So, whatever we do, it would not be straightforward.
Then let's keep the structure as is and chan
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 10:28 -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> Note that the main limitation is that before I introduced the
> explicit IW_QUAL_DBM in WE-19, the way to know if the value was
> relative or dBm was to use the 'sign' of it, i.e. value above 0 were
> non-dBm. The test is a few line
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:37:45PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello, Jean!
>
> I'm converting Orinoco to the dBm reporting, and it turns out that the
> best signal iwconfig will report is -1dBm (0.8mW). This would happen if
> qual->level has its highest value of 255. Please see this code from
Hello, Jean!
I'm converting Orinoco to the dBm reporting, and it turns out that the
best signal iwconfig will report is -1dBm (0.8mW). This would happen if
qual->level has its highest value of 255. Please see this code from
wireless_tools.29.pre10:
len = snprintf(buffer, buflen, "Signal level%c
