Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Try 2: Add wireless statistics to d80211

From: Larry Finger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:17:42 -0500

Simon Barber wrote:
> Why have both signal and rssi measures?

In the bcm43xx driver, the values are different. There is a routine that converts from rssi as a 
positive number into signal in a negative number that looks like dBm. Because of the reverse 
engineering, we have no idea what the logic behind this is, but I thought that we should keep it.

Larry