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Johannes Berg 1924b4e294 b43: use temporary rate_index for error checking
The mac80211 rate_index changed to be a u8, so
can't hold the negative error value properly.
Use a temporary variable for error checking.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-07-17 15:11:31 -04:00
Michal Kazior 4ee73f338a mac80211: remove hw.conf.channel usage where possible
Removes hw.conf.channel usage from the following functions:
 * ieee80211_mandatory_rates
 * ieee80211_sta_get_rates
 * ieee80211_frame_duration
 * ieee80211_rts_duration
 * ieee80211_ctstoself_duration

This is in preparation for multi-channel operation.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-13 14:32:50 -04:00
Johannes Berg d748b4642a mac80211: remove antenna_sel_tx TX info field
This field is never set to anything non-zero in
mac80211, so we should be able to remove it.
Unfortunately though, the iwlwifi and iwlegacy
drivers use it for their internal TX status
processing (which shouldn't be using the rate
control API to start with), so add a new field
"status.antenna" for them, at least for now.

In the future, I plan to use the new field to
hold the hardware queue, while the SKB's queue
mapping holds the AC.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-10 14:54:09 -04:00
Rusty Russell 3db1cd5c05 net: fix assignment of 0/1 to bool variables.
DaveM said:
   Please, this kind of stuff rots forever and not using bool properly
   drives me crazy.

Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> gave me the spatch script:

	@@
	bool b;
	@@
	-b = 0
	+b = false
	@@
	bool b;
	@@
	-b = 1
	+b = true

I merely installed coccinelle, read the documentation and took credit.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-19 22:27:29 -05:00
Rafał Miłecki 73d51f38c7 b43: HT-PHY: report signal to mac80211
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-07 13:19:12 -05:00
Rafał Miłecki 694718d8ad b43: fill ctl1 word on all newer PHYs, fix PHY errors
This fixes PHY transmission errors reported on some LP-PHY and HT-PHY
cards. For LP-PHY they were quite rare and not really noticable. On
HT-PHY they were critical, OFDM rates were not available at all.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-07 13:19:12 -05:00
Larry Finger addc985192 b43: Remove unneeded message
The driver can spam the logs with "RX: Packet dropped" messages. These drops
originate from 1. a correpted PLCP, 2. decryption errors, and 3. packet
size underruns. Condition #3 logs a separate message, thus no dropped message
is needed.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-02 15:23:13 -04:00
Rafał Miłecki 207ae4a373 b43: N-PHY: report signal to mac80211
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-14 14:48:20 -04:00
Rafał Miłecki 5b346f3eb4 Revert "b43: trivial: do not report any link quality instead of invalid one"
This reverts commit 55ad5962e9.

I assumed N is newer than LP, which isn't true. This regressed LP case.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-14 14:48:20 -04:00
Rafał Miłecki 55ad5962e9 b43: trivial: do not report any link quality instead of invalid one
We don't want to report random quality info (new PHYs are affected).

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-11 16:41:23 -04:00
Rafał Miłecki 6a461c23e7 b43: include HT-PHY in some common code
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-22 14:45:59 -04:00
Rafał Miłecki 17030f48e3 b43: support new RX header, noticed to be used in 598.314+ fw
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-22 14:45:59 -04:00
Rafał Miłecki 5d85290556 b43: support new TX header, noticed to be used by 598.314+ fw
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-22 14:45:58 -04:00
Rafał Miłecki efe0249b0f b43: use enum for firmware header format
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-22 14:45:58 -04:00
Rafał Miłecki 2391b7e8d4 b43: rename TX header formats
Replace "old" and "new" with number of the first firmware known to use
the given format.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-22 14:45:58 -04:00
Linus Torvalds d3ec4844d4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
  fs: Merge split strings
  treewide: fix potentially dangerous trailing ';' in #defined values/expressions
  uwb: Fix misspelling of neighbourhood in comment
  net, netfilter: Remove redundant goto in ebt_ulog_packet
  trivial: don't touch files that are removed in the staging tree
  lib/vsprintf: replace link to Draft by final RFC number
  doc: Kconfig: `to be' -> `be'
  doc: Kconfig: Typo: square -> squared
  doc: Konfig: Documentation/power/{pm => apm-acpi}.txt
  drivers/net: static should be at beginning of declaration
  drivers/media: static should be at beginning of declaration
  drivers/i2c: static should be at beginning of declaration
  XTENSA: static should be at beginning of declaration
  SH: static should be at beginning of declaration
  MIPS: static should be at beginning of declaration
  ARM: static should be at beginning of declaration
  rcu: treewide: Do not use rcu_read_lock_held when calling rcu_dereference_check
  Update my e-mail address
  PCIe ASPM: forcedly -> forcibly
  gma500: push through device driver tree
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts:
 - arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/dma-m2p.c (deleted)
 - drivers/gpio/gpio-ep93xx.c (renamed and context nearby)
 - drivers/net/r8169.c (just context changes)
2011-07-25 13:56:39 -07:00
Johannes Berg 523b02ea23 mac80211: fix TKIP races, make API easier to use
Our current TKIP code races against itself on TX
since we can process multiple packets at the same
time on different ACs, but they all share the TX
context for TKIP. This can lead to bad IVs etc.

Also, the crypto offload helper code just obtains
the P1K/P2K from the cache, and can update it as
well, but there's no guarantee that packets are
really processed in order.

To fix these issues, first introduce a spinlock
that will protect the IV16/IV32 values in the TX
context. This first step makes sure that we don't
assign the same IV multiple times or get confused
in other ways.

Secondly, change the way the P1K cache works. I
add a field "p1k_iv32" that stores the value of
the IV32 when the P1K was last recomputed, and
if different from the last time, then a new P1K
is recomputed. This can cause the P1K computation
to flip back and forth if packets are processed
out of order. All this also happens under the new
spinlock.

Finally, because there are argument differences,
split up the ieee80211_get_tkip_key() API into
ieee80211_get_tkip_p1k() and ieee80211_get_tkip_p2k()
and give them the correct arguments.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-07-08 11:11:19 -04:00
Michael Büsch eb032b9837 Update my e-mail address
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <m@bues.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-07-07 15:18:01 +02:00
Rafał Miłecki 0581483afe b43: bus: abstract SPROM
SPROM is another frequently used struct. We decided to share SPROM
struct between ssb na bcma as long as we will not need any hacks.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-06-01 15:10:57 -04:00
Rafał Miłecki dedb1eb977 b43: rename b43_wldev's field with ssb_device to sdev
We free name "dev" for something generic (like dev abstraction layer).
Additionaly code is cleaner now, especially magic dev->dev-dev chains.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-16 14:25:28 -04:00
Rafał Miłecki 3311abbbbf b43: fill PHY ctl word1 in TX header for N-PHY
This patch fixes tramissing on OFDM rates for PHYs 1 and 2. There is
still something wrong with PHYs 3+. Tests has shown decreasing of
performance on CCK rates by 1-2%, we have to live with that.
Additionaly this noticeably reduces amount of PHY errors. They were
mostly produced by auto-switching to higher rate for better
performanced, which resulted in no transmit at all and PHY errors.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-25 15:33:39 -05:00
Johannes Berg 6ebacbb79d mac80211: rename RX_FLAG_TSFT
The flag isn't very descriptive -- the intention
is that the driver provides a TSF timestamp at
the beginning of the MPDU -- make that clearer
by renaming the flag to RX_FLAG_MACTIME_MPDU.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-23 16:25:29 -05:00
John W. Linville 4a277dd8da b43: remove usage of deprecated noise value
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-28 16:48:21 -04:00
Larry Finger c1b84ab059 b43: Remove deprecated 'qual' from returned RX status
With the deprecation of the qual member of ieee80211_rx_status, that
calculation and an associated constant can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-06 16:49:09 -05:00
John W. Linville 72f5f45756 b43: use ieee80211_rx_ni()
Convert to new use ieee80211_rx_ni() routine rather than open-coded
version.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:48:30 -04:00
Michael Buesch 88499ab3d8 b43: Optimize PIO scratchbuffer usage
This optimizes the PIO scratchbuffer usage.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:48:20 -04:00
Johannes Berg edbfdcceb4 b43: fix ieee80211_rx() context
Due to the way it interacts with the networking
stack and other parts of mac80211, ieee80211_rx()
must be called with disabled softirqs.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/39440/focus=40266

Reported-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-12 15:55:53 -04:00
Albert Herranz 7e937c633f b43: do not stack-allocate pio rx/tx header and tail buffers
The DMA-API debugging facility complains about b43 mapping memory from
stack for SDIO-based cards.

Indeed, b43 currently allocates the PIO RX/TX header and tail buffers
from stack. The solution here is to use heap-allocated buffers instead.

Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:33:51 -04:00
Michael Buesch 990b86f4f9 b43: Add optional verbose runtime statistics
This adds support for verbose runtime statistics.
It defaults to off and must be enabled in debugfs, if desired.
The first measurement may be incorrect, because statistics are not cleared
after they got enabled through debugfs.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23 11:35:44 -04:00
Michael Buesch ce6c4a1392 b43: Do not use _irqsafe callbacks
We don't need to call the irqsafe callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23 11:35:43 -04:00
Michael Buesch cde1b55b43 b43: Fix sparse warning in hw-tkip code
This fixes a sparse warning in the hardware-TKIP code:

drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c:272:18: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c:272:18:    expected unsigned short [unsigned] [short] <noident>
drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c:272:18:    got restricted unsigned short [usertype] <noident>

The code should work correctly with and without this patch applied.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-09 11:18:54 -04:00
gregor kowski 035d0243eb b43: add hardware tkip
This add hardware tkip for b43.

Signed-off-by: Gregor Kowski <gregor.kowski@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:36:08 -04:00
Gábor Stefanik 826ee70664 b43: Handle B43_PHYTYPE_LP in RX path
Don't drop all packets received from an LP-PHY with WARN_ON.
Also update a comment with LP-specific information.

Signed-off-by: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:35:55 -04:00
Michael Buesch 66d2d089c3 b43: Fix hardware key index handling
This fixes the hardware encryption keys index and array size handling.

Thanks to Gregor Kowski for reporting this issue.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:45 -04:00
Johannes Berg f1d58c2521 mac80211: push rx status into skb->cb
Within mac80211, we often need to copy the rx status into
skb->cb. This is wasteful, as drivers could be building it
in there to start with. This patch changes the API so that
drivers are expected to pass the RX status in skb->cb, now
accessible as IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb). It also updates all
drivers to pass the rx status in there, but only by making
them memcpy() it into place before the call to the receive
function (ieee80211_rx(_irqsafe)). Each driver can now be
optimised on its own schedule.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10 14:57:54 -04:00
Matthieu CASTET b52a033c2c b43: Fix possible unaligned u32 access
Fix possible unaligned u32 access in b43_generate_plcp_hdr().
Unaligned data is read/write with a u32 pointer instead of using the
packed structure. Some versions of gcc ignore the "packed" attribute, if the
structure element is accessed through a local pointer.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-10 13:27:53 -04:00
Lorenzo Nava a3c0b87c4f b43: fix b43_plcp_get_bitrate_idx_ofdm return type
This patch fixes the return type of b43_plcp_get_bitrate_idx_ofdm. If
the plcp contains an error, the function return value is 255 instead
of -1, and the packet was not dropped. This causes a warning in
__ieee80211_rx function because rate idx is out of range.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Nava <navalorenx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:18 -04:00
Michael Buesch ce4fbdbf16 b43: Pass more RX flags to mac80211
This changes the RX handler to pass more status flags to mac80211.
It also changes part of the drop policy, if bad frames were requested. (Note that
currently mac80211 will throw a WARN_ON in that case. But nothing bad will happen).

This also removes some obsolete unused timestamping code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-05 14:39:40 -05:00
Johannes Berg 1e87d68083 b43: remove rate index warning
I frequently run into this warning, and added some
debugging to see why, and got this:

b43 bad rx: 00000000: 2f d2 e2 63 cf a7 14 04 28 18 c8 5f 88 4a a2 00
                      bogus junk       | plcp            | fctl| dur

b43 bad rx: 00000010: 00 11 24 91 07 4d 00 06 25 ff 8f 78 00 06 25 ff
                      my MAC address   | BSSID           | AP MAC
b43 bad rx: 00000020: 8f 76 20 74 00 00 42 07 00 20 00 00 00 00 aa aa
                           | seq | QoS | CCMP IV               | data
                      ...

As you can see, there are 6 bogus bytes (sometimes only five) and then
the frame. I don't know why, and I don't see how to recover, so let's
just drop these frames.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-21 11:06:07 -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
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
Michael Buesch 18c8adeb02 b43: Rewrite TX power adjustment
This patch rewrites the TX power recalculation algorithms to scale better
with changed enviromnent. If there's low
TX traffic, the power will be checked against the desired values
every 60 seconds.
If there is high TX traffic, the check is redone every 2 seconds. This improves
the reaction times a lot and confuses the rate control less.
It will also reduce the time it initially takes to tune to a new TX power
value. With the old algorithm it could take about 30 to 45 seconds to settle to
a new power value. This will happen in about two to four seconds now.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-29 16:24:13 -04:00
Michael Buesch ef1a628d83 b43: Implement dynamic PHY API
This patch implements a dynamic "ops" based PHY API.
This is needed in order to conveniently support future PHY types
to avoid the "switch"-hell.

This patch does not change any functionality. It just moves lots
of code from one place to another and adjusts it for the changed
data structures.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-29 16:24:12 -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
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
Harvey Harrison f37d923422 b43: 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 16:49:13 -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
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