mac80211: add support for mcs masks

* Handle MCS masks set by the user.
* Match rates provided by the rate control algorithm to the mask set,
  also in HT mode, and switch back to legacy mode if necessary.
* add debugfs files to observate the rate selection

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This commit is contained in:
Simon Wunderlich
2012-01-28 17:25:33 +01:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 24db78c05b
commit 19468413e8
7 changed files with 168 additions and 9 deletions

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@ -1181,6 +1181,13 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name,
sband = local->hw.wiphy->bands[i];
sdata->rc_rateidx_mask[i] =
sband ? (1 << sband->n_bitrates) - 1 : 0;
if (sband)
memcpy(sdata->rc_rateidx_mcs_mask[i],
sband->ht_cap.mcs.rx_mask,
sizeof(sdata->rc_rateidx_mcs_mask[i]));
else
memset(sdata->rc_rateidx_mcs_mask[i], 0,
sizeof(sdata->rc_rateidx_mcs_mask[i]));
}
/* setup type-dependent data */