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nl80211: Add signal strength and bandwith to nl80211station info

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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>
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Henning Rogge
2008-12-11 22:04:19 +01:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 221b3d60cb
commit 420e7fabd9
4 changed files with 152 additions and 2 deletions
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net/wireless/nl80211.c
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@ -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);