Thread (194 messages) 194 messages, 10 authors, 2012-06-27

[ 016/175] staging: r8712u: Fix regression in signal level after commit c6dc001

From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2012-03-30 21:17:50
Also in: lkml

3.3-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Larry Finger <redacted>

commit da3e6ec2f443ac00aa623c5921e3521f5f38efe4 upstream.

In commit c6dc001 "staging: r8712u: Merging Realtek's latest (v2.6.6).
Various fixes", the returned qual.qual member of the iw_statistics
struct was changed. For strong signals, this change made no difference;
however for medium and weak signals it results in a low signal that
shows considerable fluctuation, When using wicd for a medium-strength
AP, the value reported in the status line is reduced from 100% to 60% by
this bug.

This problem is reported in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42826.

Reported-and-tested-by: Robert Crawford <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c |    8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
@@ -2380,13 +2380,7 @@ static struct iw_statistics *r871x_get_w
 		tmp_qual = padapter->recvpriv.signal;
 		tmp_noise = padapter->recvpriv.noise;
 		piwstats->qual.level = tmp_level;
-		/*piwstats->qual.qual = tmp_qual;
-		 * The NetworkManager of Fedora 10, 13 will use the link
-		 * quality for its display.
-		 * So, use the fw_rssi on link quality variable because
-		 * fw_rssi will be updated per 2 seconds.
-		 */
-		piwstats->qual.qual = tmp_level;
+		piwstats->qual.qual = tmp_qual;
 		piwstats->qual.noise = tmp_noise;
 	}
 	piwstats->qual.updated = IW_QUAL_ALL_UPDATED;

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