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Yang Hongyang 28b7679677 dma-mapping: replace all DMA_30BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(30)
Replace all DMA_30BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(30)

Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang<yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:11 -07:00
Yang Hongyang 284901a90a dma-mapping: replace all DMA_32BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(32)
Replace all DMA_32BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(32)

Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang<yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:11 -07:00
Yang Hongyang 6a35528a83 dma-mapping: replace all DMA_64BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(64)
Replace all DMA_64BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(64)

Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang<yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:10 -07:00
Danny Kukawka b157b5e60b b43legacy: fix led naming
Fixed led device naming for the b43legacy driver. Due to the
documentation of the led subsystem/class the naming should be
"devicename:colour:function" while not applying sections
should be left blank.

This should lead to e.g. "b43legacy-%s::rx" instead of
"b43legacy-%s:rx".

Signed-off-by: Danny Kukawka <dkukawka@suse.de>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-09 15:03:47 -05:00
Johannes Berg 881d948c23 wireless: restrict to 32 legacy rates
Since the standards only define 12 legacy rates, 32 is certainly
a sane upper limit and we don't need to use u64 everywhere. Add
sanity checking that no more than 32 rates are registered and
change the variables to u32 throughout.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29 16:01:09 -05:00
John W. Linville 08cb7e0167 b43legacy: fix "‘up_dev’ may be used uninitialized" warning
drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c: In function ‘b43legacy_op_dev_config’:
drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c:2468: warning: ‘up_dev’ may be used uninitialized in this function

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-13 10:25:45 -05:00
Larry Finger d8004cb926 b43legacy: Fix sparse warnings
Sparse yields the following warnings for b43legacy:

  CHECK   drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/phy.c
drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/phy.c:1304:31: warning: potentially expensive pointer subtraction
drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/phy.c:1304:31: warning: potentially expensive pointer subtraction
drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/phy.c:1304:31: warning: potentially expensive pointer subtraction
  CHECK   drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/debugfs.c
drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/debugfs.c:243:9: warning: memset with byte count of 131072

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-12 14:02:08 -05:00
Johannes Berg 7f3704e992 b43legacy: implement short slot and basic rate handling
This implements proper short slot handling and adds code to
program the hardware for the correct response rates derived
from the basic rate set for the current BSS.

(port from b43)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-21 11:06:06 -05:00
Ilpo Järvinen 95f8e38def b43legacy: reindent misleading statement
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:17:39 -05:00
Johannes Berg 71c11fb57b b43/legacy: remove SSID code
The SSID programmed into the device is used by the ucode only
to reply to probe requests, a functionality we disable anyway
because it doesn't fit with the mac80211/hostapd programming
model. Therefore, it isn't useful to program the SSID into
device.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:11:56 -05:00
Johannes Berg e6a9854b05 mac80211/drivers: rewrite the rate control API
So after the previous changes we were still unhappy with how
convoluted the API is and decided to make things simpler for
everybody. This completely changes the rate control API, now
taking into account 802.11n with MCS rates and more control,
most drivers don't support that though.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:23 -04:00
Johannes Berg 9124b07740 mac80211: make retry limits part of hw config
Instead of having a separate callback, use the HW config callback
with a new flag to change retry limits.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:14 -04:00
Johannes Berg e8975581f6 mac80211: introduce hw config change flags
This makes mac80211 notify the driver which configuration
actually changed, e.g. channel etc.

No driver changes, this is just plumbing, driver authors are
expected to act on this if they want to.

Also remove the HW CONFIG debug printk, it's incorrect, often
we configure something else.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:07 -04:00
Johannes Berg 0f4ac38b59 mac80211: kill hw.conf.antenna_sel_{rx,tx}
Never actually used.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:06 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 870abdf671 mac80211: add multi-rate retry support
This patch adjusts the rate control API to allow multi-rate retry
if supported by the driver. The ieee80211_hw struct specifies how
many alternate rate selections the driver supports.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-06 18:14:57 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 76708dee38 mac80211: free up 2 bytes in skb->cb
Free up 2 bytes in skb->cb to be used for multi-rate retry later.
Move iv_len and icv_len initialization into key alloc.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-06 18:14:57 -04:00
David S. Miller b262e60309 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c
	drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c
	net/core/dev.c
2008-10-01 06:12:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e95926d05d Revert "b43/b43legacy: add RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED support"
This reverts commit bc19d6e0b7, which as
Larry Finger reports causes the radio LED on his system to no longer
respond to rfkill switch events.

Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Requested-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-16 19:32:30 -07:00
Johannes Berg 17741cdc26 mac80211: share STA information with driver
This patch changes mac80211 to share some more data about
stations with drivers. Should help iwlwifi and ath9k when
 they get around to updating, and might also help with
implementing rate control algorithms without internals.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:23 -04:00
Johannes Berg 05c914fe33 mac80211: use nl80211 interface types
There's really no reason for mac80211 to be using its
own interface type defines. Use the nl80211 types and
simplify the configuration code a bit: there's no need
to translate them any more now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:23 -04:00
Ehud Gavron 940b7a3a6c b43legacy: Fix to enhance TX speed
Recent changes in the specifications have improved the performance
of the BCM4306/2 devices that use b43legacy as the driver. These
"errors" in the specs have been present from the very first implementation
of bcm43xx.

Signed-off-by: Ehud Gavron <gavron@wetwork.net>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:33 -04:00
Larry Finger c6a2afdacc b43legacy: Fix failure in rate-adjustment mechanism
A coding error present since b43legacy was incorporated into the
kernel has prevented the driver from using the rate-setting mechanism
of mac80211. The driver has been forced to remain at a 1 Mb/s rate.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.26], [2.6.25]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:32 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez f59ac04816 cfg80211: keep track of supported interface modes
It is obviously good for userspace to know up front which
interface modes a given piece of hardware might support (even
if adding such an interface might fail later because of
concurrency issues), so let's make cfg80211 aware of that.
For good measure, disallow adding interfaces in all other
modes so drivers don't forget to announce support for one mode
when they add it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Blackheath <tramp.enshrine.stephen@blacksapphire.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-05 16:17:42 -04:00
Huang Weiyi a3ec233c90 wireless: remove unused #include <version.h>
The driver(s) below do not use LINUX_VERSION_CODE nor KERNEL_VERSION.
  drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c
  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945-led.c
  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-led.c
  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rfkill.c

This patch removes the said #include <version.h>.

Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-29 16:24:08 -04:00
Adrian Bunk 7a8fc9b248 removed unused #include <linux/version.h>'s
This patch lets the files using linux/version.h match the files that
#include it.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-23 12:14:12 -07:00
Harvey Harrison ba5b6efe5d b43legacy: use le16 frame control directly, avoid byteswapping
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-22 16:29:51 -04:00
Johannes Berg d0f0980414 mac80211: partially fix skb->cb use
This patch fixes mac80211 to not use the skb->cb over the queue step
from virtual interfaces to the master. The patch also, for now,
disables aggregation because that would still require requeuing,
will fix that in a separate patch. There are two other places (software
requeue and powersaving stations) where requeue can happen, but that is
not currently used by any drivers/not possible to use respectively.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-29 16:55:08 -04:00
Julia Lawall 4104863fb4 b43legacy: Release mutex in error handling code
The mutex is released on a successful return, so it would seem that it
should be released on an error return as well.

The semantic patch finds this problem is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression l;
@@

mutex_lock(l);
... when != mutex_unlock(l)
    when any
    when strict
(
if (...) { ... when != mutex_unlock(l)
+   mutex_unlock(l);
    return ...;
}
|
mutex_unlock(l);
)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-29 16:55:05 -04:00
Johannes Berg 605a0bd66d mac80211: remove IEEE80211_HW_HOST_GEN_BEACON_TEMPLATE flag
I forgot this in the previous patch that made it unused.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-29 16:36:24 -04:00
Johannes Berg f591fa5dbb mac80211: fix TX sequence numbers
This patch makes mac80211 assign proper sequence numbers to
QoS-data frames. It also removes the old sequence number code
because we noticed that only the driver or hardware can assign
sequence numbers to non-QoS-data and especially management
frames in a race-free manner because beacons aren't passed
through mac80211's TX path.

This patch also adds temporary code to the rt2x00 drivers to
not break them completely, that code will have to be reworked
for proper sequence numbers on beacons.

It also moves sequence number assignment down in the TX path
so no sequence numbers are assigned to frames that are dropped.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-14 14:52:57 -04:00
Johannes Berg 9d139c810a mac80211: revamp beacon configuration
This patch changes mac80211's beacon configuration handling
to never pass skbs to the driver directly but rather always
require the driver to use ieee80211_beacon_get(). Additionally,
it introduces "change flags" on the config_interface() call
to enable drivers to figure out what is changing. Finally, it
removes the beacon_update() driver callback in favour of
having IBSS beacon delivered by ieee80211_beacon_get() as well.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-14 14:30:07 -04:00
Larry Finger 70197ede33 b43legacy: Remove switch statement with 64-bit index
The gcc 3.4 fork used to compile the MN10300 port emits unwanted
__ucmpdi2() calls for switch statements that use a 64bit value.

This patch removes such a switch from b43legacy, and makes the code
more like that used in b43. Thanks to Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
for reporting the problem.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-08 14:16:04 -04:00
Adel Gadllah bc19d6e0b7 b43/b43legacy: add RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED support
This patch sets the rfkill state to RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED when the
radio is killed by the hardware switch.

Signed-off-by: Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-30 17:37:37 -04:00
Adel Gadllah f97d1f489d b43/b43legacy: use RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED instead of RFKILL_STATE_ON
This patch removes the usage RFKILL_STATE_ON and uses
RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED instead.

Signed-off-by: Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-30 17:37:37 -04:00
David S. Miller 28f49d8fec Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2008-06-28 22:57:58 -07:00
David S. Miller 1b63ba8a86 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c
2008-06-28 01:19:40 -07:00
John W. Linville ff28bd94e3 wireless: remove RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED warnings
CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/b43/rfkill.o
drivers/net/wireless/b43/rfkill.c: In function ‘b43_rfkill_soft_toggle’:
drivers/net/wireless/b43/rfkill.c:90: warning: enumeration value ‘RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED’ not handled in switch

  CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/rfkill.o
drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/rfkill.c: In function ‘b43legacy_rfkill_soft_toggle’:
drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/rfkill.c:92: warning: enumeration value ‘RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED’ not handled in switch

  CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rfkill.o
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rfkill.c: In function ‘iwl_rfkill_soft_rf_kill’:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rfkill.c:56: warning: enumeration value ‘RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED’ not handled in switch

Also handle RFKILL_STATE_{ON,OFF} -> RFKILL_STATE_{UNBLOCKED,SOFT_BLOCKED}
conversion since I'm already here...

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-27 10:27:47 -04:00
Michael Buesch f225763a7d ssb, b43, b43legacy, b44: Rewrite SSB DMA API
This is a rewrite of the DMA API for SSB devices.
This is needed, because the old (non-existing) "API" made too many bad
assumptions on the API of the host-bus (PCI).
This introduces an almost complete SSB-DMA-API that maps to the lowlevel
bus-API based on the bustype.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-27 09:09:15 -04:00
Harvey Harrison b99a017c01 b43legacy: use frame control helpers
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-26 16:49:14 -04:00
Michael Buesch 2f9ec47d09 b43legacy: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in DMA code
This fixes a possible NULL pointer dereference in an error path of the
DMA allocation error checking code. This is also necessary for a future
DMA API change that is on its way into the mainline kernel that adds
an additional dev parameter to dma_mapping_error().

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-25 10:56:16 -04:00
Michael Buesch 664f200610 b43legacy: Do not return TX_BUSY from op_tx
Never return TX_BUSY from op_tx. It doesn't make sense to return
TX_BUSY, if we can not transmit the packet.
Drop the packet and return TX_OK.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-25 10:55:09 -04:00
David S. Miller 65b53e4cc9 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/tg3.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
	net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
2008-06-10 02:22:26 -07:00
Michael Buesch 48e6c51bd3 b43legacy: Fix controller restart crash
This fixes a kernel crash on rmmod, in the case where the controller
was restarted before doing the rmmod.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-04 15:57:09 -04:00
Johannes Berg 553381c430 b43legacy: fix build errors when DMA or PIO are not selected
Currently, b43legacy is broken due to

commit fbad4598ca826b994d0fd4ce3deebc9cd1960b31
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Thu May 15 12:55:29 2008 +0200

    mac80211: move TX info into skb->cb

when compiled with only PIO or only DMA because I forgot to update two
stubs. This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-03 15:00:16 -04:00
Johannes Berg e253008360 mac80211: use multi-queue master netdevice
This patch updates mac80211 and drivers to be multi-queue aware and
use that instead of the internal queue mapping. Also does a number
of cleanups in various pieces of the code that fall out and reduces
internal mac80211 state size.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:14 -04:00
Johannes Berg e039fa4a41 mac80211: move TX info into skb->cb
This patch converts mac80211 and all drivers to have transmit
information and status in skb->cb rather than allocating extra
memory for it and copying all the data around. To make it fit,
a union is used where only data that is necessary for all steps
is kept outside of the union.

A number of fixes were done by Ivo, as well as the rt2x00 part
of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:11 -04:00
Johannes Berg 2e92e6f2c5 mac80211: use rate index in TX control
This patch modifies struct ieee80211_tx_control to give band
info and the rate index (instead of rate pointers) to drivers.
This mostly serves to reduce the TX control structure size to
make it fit into skb->cb so that the fragmentation code can
put it there and we can think about passing it to drivers that
way in the future.

The rt2x00 driver update was done by Ivo, thanks.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:09 -04:00
Johannes Berg 36d6825b91 mac80211: let drivers wake but not start queues
Having drivers start queues is just confusing, their ->start()
callback can block and do whatever is necessary, so let mac80211
start queues and have drivers wake queues when necessary (to get
packets flowing again right away.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:08 -04:00
Al Viro 46cb69ccdf missing dependencies on HAS_DMA
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-21 16:55:59 -07:00
Bruno Randolf 566bfe5a8b mac80211: use hardware flags for signal/noise units
trying to clean up the signal/noise code. the previous code in mac80211 had
confusing names for the related variables, did not have much definition of
what units of signal and noise were provided and used implicit mechanisms from
the wireless extensions.

this patch introduces hardware capability flags to let the hardware specify
clearly if it can provide signal and noise level values and which units it can
provide. this also anticipates possible new units like RCPI in the future.

for signal:

  IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC - unspecified, unknown, hw specific
  IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB     - dB difference to unspecified reference point
  IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM    - dBm, difference to 1mW

for noise we currently only have dBm:

  IEEE80211_HW_NOISE_DBM     - dBm, difference to 1mW

if IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC or IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB is used the driver has
to provide the maximum value (max_signal) it reports in order for applications
to make sense of the signal values.

i tried my best to find out for each driver what it can provide and update it
but i'm not sure (?) for some of them and used the more conservative guess in
doubt. this can be fixed easily after this patch has been merged by changing
the hardware flags of the driver.

DRIVER          SIGNAL    MAX	NOISE   QUAL
-----------------------------------------------------------------
adm8211         unspec(?) 100   n/a     missing
at76_usb        unspec(?) (?)   unused  missing
ath5k           dBm             dBm     percent rssi
b43legacy       dBm             dBm     percent jssi(?)
b43             dBm             dBm     percent jssi(?)
iwl-3945        dBm             dBm     percent snr+more
iwl-4965        dBm             dBm     percent snr+more
p54             unspec    127   n/a     missing
rt2x00          dBm	        n/a     percent rssi+tx/rx frame success
  rt2400        dBm             n/a
  rt2500pci     dBm             n/a
  rt2500usb     dBm             n/a
  rt61pci       dBm             n/a
  rt73usb       dBm             n/a
rtl8180         unspec(?) 65    n/a     (?)
rtl8187         unspec(?) 65    (?)     noise(?)
zd1211          dB(?)     100   n/a     percent

drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c:      Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14 16:29:49 -04:00