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    cfg80211: allow RSSI compensation · 67af9811
    Emmanuel Grumbach authored
    
    
    Channels in 2.4GHz band overlap, this means that if we
    send a probe request on channel 1 and then move to channel
    2, we will hear the probe response on channel 2. In this
    case, the RSSI will be lower than if we had heard it on
    the channel on which it was sent (1 in this case).
    
    The firmware / low level driver can parse the channel in
    the DS IE or HT IE and compensate the RSSI so that it will
    still have a valid value even if we heard the frame on an
    adjacent channel. This can be done up to a certain offset.
    
    Add this offset as a configuration for the low level driver.
    A low level driver that can compensate the low RSSI in this
    case should assign the maximal offset for which the RSSI
    value is still valid.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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