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authorEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>2014-05-18 09:15:24 +0200
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2014-05-22 09:58:49 +0200
commit67af9811539be83dbdc0739215d29af23c870405 (patch)
tree737b3e00be1c18e1c21c34eed17606d3839c5ed5
parentcfg80211: don't set reg timeout for user-handled hint (diff)
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cfg80211: allow RSSI compensation
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: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--include/net/cfg80211.h7
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/scan.c12
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
index a75fabd18502..920ec8c1ce54 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -2961,6 +2961,12 @@ struct wiphy_vendor_command {
* and probe responses. This value should be set if the driver
* wishes to limit the number of csa counters. Default (0) means
* infinite.
+ * @max_adj_channel_rssi_comp: max offset of between the channel on which the
+ * frame was sent and the channel on which the frame was heard for which
+ * the reported rssi is still valid. If a driver is able to compensate the
+ * low rssi when a frame is heard on different channel, then it should set
+ * this variable to the maximal offset for which it can compensate.
+ * This value should be set in MHz.
*/
struct wiphy {
/* assign these fields before you register the wiphy */
@@ -3079,6 +3085,7 @@ struct wiphy {
u16 max_ap_assoc_sta;
u8 max_num_csa_counters;
+ u8 max_adj_channel_rssi_comp;
char priv[0] __aligned(NETDEV_ALIGN);
};
diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c
index 0f5da18cc619..77c56eef0574 100644
--- a/net/wireless/scan.c
+++ b/net/wireless/scan.c
@@ -883,6 +883,7 @@ cfg80211_inform_bss_width(struct wiphy *wiphy,
struct cfg80211_bss_ies *ies;
struct ieee80211_channel *channel;
struct cfg80211_internal_bss tmp = {}, *res;
+ bool signal_valid;
if (WARN_ON(!wiphy))
return NULL;
@@ -919,8 +920,9 @@ cfg80211_inform_bss_width(struct wiphy *wiphy,
rcu_assign_pointer(tmp.pub.beacon_ies, ies);
rcu_assign_pointer(tmp.pub.ies, ies);
- res = cfg80211_bss_update(wiphy_to_rdev(wiphy), &tmp,
- rx_channel == channel);
+ signal_valid = abs(rx_channel->center_freq - channel->center_freq) <=
+ wiphy->max_adj_channel_rssi_comp;
+ res = cfg80211_bss_update(wiphy_to_rdev(wiphy), &tmp, signal_valid);
if (!res)
return NULL;
@@ -944,6 +946,7 @@ cfg80211_inform_bss_width_frame(struct wiphy *wiphy,
struct cfg80211_internal_bss tmp = {}, *res;
struct cfg80211_bss_ies *ies;
struct ieee80211_channel *channel;
+ bool signal_valid;
size_t ielen = len - offsetof(struct ieee80211_mgmt,
u.probe_resp.variable);
@@ -991,8 +994,9 @@ cfg80211_inform_bss_width_frame(struct wiphy *wiphy,
tmp.pub.beacon_interval = le16_to_cpu(mgmt->u.probe_resp.beacon_int);
tmp.pub.capability = le16_to_cpu(mgmt->u.probe_resp.capab_info);
- res = cfg80211_bss_update(wiphy_to_rdev(wiphy), &tmp,
- rx_channel == channel);
+ signal_valid = abs(rx_channel->center_freq - channel->center_freq) <=
+ wiphy->max_adj_channel_rssi_comp;
+ res = cfg80211_bss_update(wiphy_to_rdev(wiphy), &tmp, signal_valid);
if (!res)
return NULL;