| Date | Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:48:48 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | [ 015/149] staging: r8712u: Fix regression in signal level after commit c6dc001 |
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3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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 <wrc1944@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> 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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