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

From: John W. Linville
Date: Tue Dec 07 2010 - 14:15:39 EST


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?

John
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