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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 15:04:54 -0500 |
| commit | 420e7fabd9c6d907280ed6b3e40eef425c5d8d8d (patch) | |
| tree | 6effc9f9386746d1aeb953e32fe82b0a5a5fdf18 /include/net | |
| parent | 221b3d60cbb2740ec7d46a4f1ea6d3318a112e51 (diff) | |
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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 'include/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/cfg80211.h | 40 |
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h index a0c0bf19496c..65e03ac93109 100644 --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h @@ -169,6 +169,9 @@ struct station_parameters { * @STATION_INFO_LLID: @llid filled * @STATION_INFO_PLID: @plid filled * @STATION_INFO_PLINK_STATE: @plink_state filled + * @STATION_INFO_SIGNAL: @signal filled + * @STATION_INFO_TX_BITRATE: @tx_bitrate fields are filled + * (tx_bitrate, tx_bitrate_flags and tx_bitrate_mcs) */ enum station_info_flags { STATION_INFO_INACTIVE_TIME = 1<<0, @@ -177,6 +180,39 @@ enum station_info_flags { STATION_INFO_LLID = 1<<3, STATION_INFO_PLID = 1<<4, STATION_INFO_PLINK_STATE = 1<<5, + STATION_INFO_SIGNAL = 1<<6, + STATION_INFO_TX_BITRATE = 1<<7, +}; + +/** + * enum station_info_rate_flags - bitrate info flags + * + * Used by the driver to indicate the specific rate transmission + * type for 802.11n transmissions. + * + * @RATE_INFO_FLAGS_MCS: @tx_bitrate_mcs filled + * @RATE_INFO_FLAGS_40_MHZ_WIDTH: 40 Mhz width transmission + * @RATE_INFO_FLAGS_SHORT_GI: 400ns guard interval + */ +enum rate_info_flags { + RATE_INFO_FLAGS_MCS = 1<<0, + RATE_INFO_FLAGS_40_MHZ_WIDTH = 1<<1, + RATE_INFO_FLAGS_SHORT_GI = 1<<2, +}; + +/** + * struct rate_info - bitrate information + * + * Information about a receiving or transmitting bitrate + * + * @flags: bitflag of flags from &enum rate_info_flags + * @mcs: mcs index if struct describes a 802.11n bitrate + * @legacy: bitrate in 100kbit/s for 802.11abg + */ +struct rate_info { + u8 flags; + u8 mcs; + u16 legacy; }; /** @@ -191,6 +227,8 @@ enum station_info_flags { * @llid: mesh local link id * @plid: mesh peer link id * @plink_state: mesh peer link state + * @signal: signal strength of last received packet in dBm + * @txrate: current unicast bitrate to this station */ struct station_info { u32 filled; @@ -200,6 +238,8 @@ struct station_info { u16 llid; u16 plid; u8 plink_state; + s8 signal; + struct rate_info txrate; }; /** |