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| author | Henning Rogge <hrogge@googlemail.com> | 2008-12-11 22:04:19 +0100 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2008-12-19 21:04:54 +0100 |
| commit | 420e7fabd9c6d907280ed6b3e40eef425c5d8d8d (patch) | |
| tree | 6effc9f9386746d1aeb953e32fe82b0a5a5fdf18 /net/wireless | |
| parent | ucc_geth: Remove UGETH_FILTERING dead code (diff) | |
| download | linux-420e7fabd9c6d907280ed6b3e40eef425c5d8d8d.tar.xz linux-420e7fabd9c6d907280ed6b3e40eef425c5d8d8d.zip | |
nl80211: Add signal strength and bandwith to nl80211station info
This patch adds signal strength and transmission bitrate
to the station_info of nl80211.
Signed-off-by: Henning Rogge <rogge@fgan.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/nl80211.c | 58 |
1 files changed, 57 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index 4335f76be71f..93c9b983ce08 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -1091,12 +1091,46 @@ static int parse_station_flags(struct nlattr *nla, u32 *staflags) return 0; } +static u16 nl80211_calculate_bitrate(struct rate_info *rate) +{ + int modulation, streams, bitrate; + + if (!(rate->flags & RATE_INFO_FLAGS_MCS)) + return rate->legacy; + + /* the formula below does only work for MCS values smaller than 32 */ + if (rate->mcs >= 32) + return 0; + + modulation = rate->mcs & 7; + streams = (rate->mcs >> 3) + 1; + + bitrate = (rate->flags & RATE_INFO_FLAGS_40_MHZ_WIDTH) ? + 13500000 : 6500000; + + if (modulation < 4) + bitrate *= (modulation + 1); + else if (modulation == 4) + bitrate *= (modulation + 2); + else + bitrate *= (modulation + 3); + + bitrate *= streams; + + if (rate->flags & RATE_INFO_FLAGS_SHORT_GI) + bitrate = (bitrate / 9) * 10; + + /* do NOT round down here */ + return (bitrate + 50000) / 100000; +} + static int nl80211_send_station(struct sk_buff *msg, u32 pid, u32 seq, int flags, struct net_device *dev, u8 *mac_addr, struct station_info *sinfo) { void *hdr; - struct nlattr *sinfoattr; + struct nlattr *sinfoattr, *txrate; + u16 bitrate; hdr = nl80211hdr_put(msg, pid, seq, flags, NL80211_CMD_NEW_STATION); if (!hdr) @@ -1126,7 +1160,29 @@ static int nl80211_send_station(struct sk_buff *msg, u32 pid, u32 seq, if (sinfo->filled & STATION_INFO_PLINK_STATE) NLA_PUT_U8(msg, NL80211_STA_INFO_PLINK_STATE, sinfo->plink_state); + if (sinfo->filled & STATION_INFO_SIGNAL) + NLA_PUT_U8(msg, NL80211_STA_INFO_SIGNAL, + sinfo->signal); + if (sinfo->filled & STATION_INFO_TX_BITRATE) { + txrate = nla_nest_start(msg, NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BITRATE); + if (!txrate) + goto nla_put_failure; + + /* nl80211_calculate_bitrate will return 0 for mcs >= 32 */ + bitrate = nl80211_calculate_bitrate(&sinfo->txrate); + if (bitrate > 0) + NLA_PUT_U16(msg, NL80211_RATE_INFO_BITRATE, bitrate); + if (sinfo->txrate.flags & RATE_INFO_FLAGS_MCS) + NLA_PUT_U8(msg, NL80211_RATE_INFO_MCS, + sinfo->txrate.mcs); + if (sinfo->txrate.flags & RATE_INFO_FLAGS_40_MHZ_WIDTH) + NLA_PUT_FLAG(msg, NL80211_RATE_INFO_40_MHZ_WIDTH); + if (sinfo->txrate.flags & RATE_INFO_FLAGS_SHORT_GI) + NLA_PUT_FLAG(msg, NL80211_RATE_INFO_SHORT_GI); + + nla_nest_end(msg, txrate); + } nla_nest_end(msg, sinfoattr); return genlmsg_end(msg, hdr); |