Re: [patch] fix madwifi strength

[Robert Love <rml novell com>]

On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 11:33 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:

> qual->qual is for artificial, driver-dependent quality.  Why they don't
> do something even half-smart, like ipw2x00 does, is beyond me.  Maybe
> it's laziness, or maybe I haven't yelled at them yet.  They could at
> least _try_ to conform.  Many, many more things factor into "quality"
> than raw signal strength, like dropped packets, failed decryption, etc.
> Tell them to fix the damn driver...
> 
> If you want, I'll tell them to do it, and I'll even write the patch for
> it.  At some point we need to know some heads to get minimal conformance
> to _something_.

Sure.

The issue has been brought up before, though ... so good luck.

	Robert Love