[PATCH] Per chain RSSI reporting

[Kalle Valo]

Norik Dzhandzhapanyan <norikd at ethertronics.com> writes:

> Inserting the smoothing function here is motivated by what we see as
> 'spikes' in rssi data under weak rssi conditions. Figured its best to
> get rid of the 'bogus' data as close to the source as possible. Also
> to minimize the impact on the changes.
>
> I believe the averaging that happens at higher levels is based on EWMA
> macros in net/mac80211/sta_info.c which not wifi card/chipset
> specific. Didn't want to touch that since other cards seem to not have
> this spikey behavior. And, it doesnt seem to have an effect on the
> ath10k data anyway (iw reports the exact same values for both).
>
> I wonder if it would be acceptable to pass a module load time
> parameter which would indicate an average factor with 0 (as default)
> to indicate no averaging?

I don't know what Johannes thinks, but in my opinion this kind of
smoothing should be in mac80211 and not in drivers. The driver should be
as simple as possible.

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Kalle Valo