linux/net
Johannes Berg c27f2fded5 mac80211: deprecate qual value
This value is unused by mac80211, because it was only
be used by wireless extensions, and turned out to not
be useful there because the quality value needs to be
comparable between scan results and the current value
which is impossible when the qual value is calculated
taking into account noise, for example.

Since it is unused anyway, this patch deprecates it
in the hope that drivers will remove their sometimes
quite expensive calculations of the value.

I'm open to actual uses of the value, but the best
way of using it seems to be what the Intel drivers do
which should probably be generalised if we have noise
values from the hardware.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30 16:50:39 -04:00
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9p virtio: add virtio IDs file 2009-09-23 22:26:32 +09:30
802 net: remove COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPS 2009-05-25 01:53:53 -07:00
8021q vlan: cleanup multiple unregistrations 2009-10-29 23:43:00 -07:00
appletalk net: mark net_proto_ops as const 2009-10-07 01:10:46 -07:00
atm net: Generalize socket rx gap / receive queue overflow cmsg 2009-10-12 13:26:31 -07:00
ax25 ax25: unsigned cannot be less than 0 in ax25_ctl_ioctl() 2009-10-29 23:06:39 -07:00
bluetooth Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-10-27 01:03:26 -07:00
bridge bridge: Optimize multiple unregistration 2009-10-29 01:13:48 -07:00
can net: Cleanup redundant tests on unsigned 2009-10-29 01:39:54 -07:00
core gro: Change all receive functions to return GRO result codes 2009-10-29 21:36:53 -07:00
dcb net: fix double skb free in dcbnl 2009-09-26 20:16:15 -07:00
dccp net: Fix for dst_negative_advice 2009-10-20 18:55:46 -07:00
decnet net: Fix for dst_negative_advice 2009-10-20 18:55:46 -07:00
dsa netdev: convert pseudo-devices to netdev_tx_t 2009-09-01 01:13:07 -07:00
econet econet: Fix redeclaration of symbol len 2009-10-07 14:43:04 -07:00
ethernet net: remove COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPS 2009-05-25 01:53:53 -07:00
ieee802154 net: sk_drops consolidation 2009-10-14 20:40:11 -07:00
ipv4 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-10-29 21:28:59 -07:00
ipv6 Allow tcp_parse_options to consult dst entry 2009-10-29 01:28:41 -07:00
ipx net: mark net_proto_ops as const 2009-10-07 01:10:46 -07:00
irda net: mark net_proto_ops as const 2009-10-07 01:10:46 -07:00
iucv af_iucv: remove duplicate sock_set_flag 2009-10-17 23:57:20 -07:00
key net: Generalize socket rx gap / receive queue overflow cmsg 2009-10-12 13:26:31 -07:00
lapb net: remove NET_RX_BAD and NET_RX_CN* defines 2009-07-05 19:15:35 -07:00
llc net: mark net_proto_ops as const 2009-10-07 01:10:46 -07:00
mac80211 mac80211: deprecate qual value 2009-10-30 16:50:39 -04:00
netfilter inet: rename some inet_sock fields 2009-10-18 18:52:53 -07:00
netlabel Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-07-30 19:22:43 -07:00
netlink genetlink: Optimize and one bug fix in genl_generate_id() 2009-10-17 23:57:26 -07:00
netrom net: mark net_proto_ops as const 2009-10-07 01:10:46 -07:00
packet Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-10-29 21:28:59 -07:00
phonet Phonet: hold socket before giving it to sk_deliver_skb() 2009-10-15 12:30:42 -07:00
rds inet: rename some inet_sock fields 2009-10-18 18:52:53 -07:00
rfkill headers: remove sched.h from poll.h 2009-10-04 15:05:10 -07:00
rose net: mark net_proto_ops as const 2009-10-07 01:10:46 -07:00
rxrpc net: Generalize socket rx gap / receive queue overflow cmsg 2009-10-12 13:26:31 -07:00
sched pkt_sched: skbedit add support for setting mark 2009-10-22 21:56:42 -07:00
sctp inet: rename some inet_sock fields 2009-10-18 18:52:53 -07:00
sunrpc inet: rename some inet_sock fields 2009-10-18 18:52:53 -07:00
tipc net: Make setsockopt() optlen be unsigned. 2009-09-30 16:12:20 -07:00
unix Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-10-27 01:03:26 -07:00
wanrouter headers: smp_lock.h redux 2009-07-12 12:22:34 -07:00
wimax wimax: fix warning caused by not checking retval of rfkill_set_hw_state() 2009-06-11 11:12:48 -07:00
wireless cfg80211/mac80211: use debugfs_remove_recursive 2009-10-30 16:49:18 -04:00
x25 net: Cleanup redundant tests on unsigned 2009-10-29 01:39:53 -07:00
xfrm xfrm: remove skb_icv_walk 2009-10-18 21:32:01 -07:00
compat.c net: Cleanup redundant tests on unsigned 2009-10-29 01:39:54 -07:00
Kconfig net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasks 2009-07-15 08:53:39 -07:00
Makefile net: remove redundant sched/ in net/Makefile 2009-07-12 20:11:14 -07:00
nonet.c
socket.c net: Introduce recvmmsg socket syscall 2009-10-12 23:40:10 -07:00
sysctl_net.c net: sysctl_net - use net_eq to compare nets 2009-03-16 16:23:30 +01:00
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