[PATCH 0/1] [Hardy LBM, netbook-lpia branch] rt2x00: re-adjust wifi signal strength

[Stefan Bader]

Colin Ian King wrote:
> Please ACK/NACK etc before end of this week if possible.

I believe Andy and me sort of acked that. But I guess there currently there
might be a little friction on who applies it. Sort of I was assuming Ike, as he
had been taking care of netbook-lpia branch stuff in Hardy. So Ike, feel free to
make the changes to hardy lbm and ping me to pull it into the repo.

Stefan

> Thanks!
> 
> On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 10:14 +0100, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
>>
>> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557239
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>> Hardy LBM, netbook-lpia branch
>>
>> [Note: Please apply post Monday 12th because of a project release
>>  timing dependency ]
>>
>> Impact: rt2x00 wifi signal strength range is very compressed and almost 
>> meaningless as a metric because of fictional TX status when using the
>> driver rt73usb and also a very large skewing affect caused by a large 
>> mix of TX and RX metrics with a small RSSI metric.
>>
>> Fix: Base signal strength based on RSSI rather than TX and RX metrics
>> and tweak RSSI base offset to a more reasonable base value.
>>
>> Testcase: Without the patch, signal strength shows very little change
>> when close or from from an AP. With the patch, the signal strength
>> ranges are closer to those shown from other wifi drivers.
>>
>> Colin Ian King (1):
>>   UBUNTU: rt2x00: re-adjust wifi signal strength range
>>
>>  .../drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00.h           |    6 +++---
>>  .../drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.h          |    2 +-
>>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
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