Re: quality as a logarithm.

[Peter Jones <pjones redhat com>]

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 15:24 -0500, Robert Love wrote:

> But we must ask:  How many drivers actually do this?  In my testing,
> nearly all output the strength as a logarithm.
> 
> Indeed, in Netapplet we scaled the quality via
> 
> 	log (quality) / log (max)
> 
> as I do in the attached patch.
> 
> Any ideas on how to proceed?  If most drivers still export things
> logarithmically, the current code is more wrong than right.

Won't this will become a moot point as drivers move to the unified
ieee80211 code, which AIUI already transforms the data to a linear
scale?

-- 
  Peter