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    • Bruno Randolf's avatar
      mac80211: use hardware flags for signal/noise units · 566bfe5a
      Bruno Randolf authored 
      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: default avatarBruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      566bfe5a
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      mac80211: proper STA info locking · 07346f81
      Johannes Berg authored 
      As discussed earlier, we can unify locking in struct sta_info
and use just a single spinlock protecting all members of the
structure that need protection. Many don't, but one of the
especially bad ones is the 'flags' member that can currently
be clobbered when RX and TX is being processed on different
CPUs at the same time.

Because having four spinlocks for different, mostly exclusive
parts of a single structure is overkill, this patch also kills
the ampdu and mesh plink spinlocks and uses just a single one
for everything. Because none of the spinlocks are nested, this
is safe.

It remains to be seen whether or not we should make the sta
flags use atomic bit operations instead, for now though this
is a safe thing and using atomic operations instead will be
very simple using the new static inline functions this patch
introduces for accessing sta->flags.

Since spin_lock_bh() is used with this lock, there shouldn't
be any contention even if aggregation is enabled at around the
same time as both requires frame transmission/reception which
is in a bh context.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Cc: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      07346f81
  21. 07 May, 2008 2 commits
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      mac80211: QoS related cleanups · e100bb64
      Johannes Berg authored 
      This
 * makes the queue number passed to drivers a u16
   (as it will be with skb_get_queue_mapping)
 * removes the useless queue number defines
 * splits hw->queues into hw->queues/ampdu_queues
 * removes the debugfs files for per-queue counters
 * removes some dead QoS code
 * removes the beacon queue configuration for IBSS
   so that the drivers now never get a queue number
   bigger than (hw->queues + hw->ampdu_queues - 1)
   for tx and only in the range 0..hw->queues-1 for
   conf_tx.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      e100bb64
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      mac80211: a few code cleanups · 988c0f72
      Johannes Berg authored 
      This has some code cleanups (some inspired by checkpatch), I got
bored at probably a third of the output though so if somebody
else wants to...

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      988c0f72
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