Re: [PATCH 3/3] nl80211/mac80211: Report signal average

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Tue Dec 07 2010 - 14:18:10 EST


On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 14:06 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 07:12:43PM +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote:
> > Extend nl80211 to report an exponential weighted moving average (EWMA) of the
> > signal value. Since the signal value usually fluctuates between different
> > packets, an average can be more useful than the value of the last packet.
> >
> > This uses the recently added generic EWMA library function.
> >
> > --
> > v2: fix ABI breakage and change factor to be a power of 2.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Jouni and Johannes, are you satisfied with this version?

Yeah, I think with the v2 of the lib improvement it should be fine.

johannes

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