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ath9k: Use calibrated noise floor value when available
authorWojciech Dubowik <Wojciech.Dubowik@neratec.com>
Wed, 24 Jan 2018 08:02:18 +0000 (09:02 +0100)
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Thu, 25 Jan 2018 05:33:43 +0000 (07:33 +0200)
commit7aa5c96ed14abecfa7dc52623d69fb69a138770c
tree194ddb074b5e6cf69edbc04e8ffd60f6bbb457ae
parente8bb230ec2e3333b55f7de9bda2d9b198a40c78c
ath9k: Use calibrated noise floor value when available

AR9003 series allows to calibrate noise floor for different frequency
bins. Once it's done it's possible to get more accurate rssi/signal
values over whole frequency band at a given temperature.
The RSSI/signal accuracy reported by calibrated RF cards improves
from 6 to up to 2dB.

This could be interesting for application which require good signal
accuracy like roaming or mesh protocols.

Signed-off-by: Wojciech Dubowik <Wojciech.Dubowik@neratec.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/calib.c