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| author | Andrzej Zaborowski | 2017-01-25 12:43:41 +0100 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg | 2017-02-08 10:43:40 +0100 |
| commit | bee427b86217b78a0a5fc85575cc155e4c32bbf9 (patch) | |
| tree | c145ffd541ff7a8081ae1f52ad785ea02b2aeeda /include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | |
| parent | mac80211: Pass new RSSI level in CQM RSSI notification (diff) | |
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cfg80211: Pass new RSSI level in CQM RSSI notification
Update the drivers to pass the RSSI level as a cfg80211_cqm_rssi_notify
parameter and pass this value to userspace in a new nl80211 attribute.
This helps both userspace and also helps in the implementation of the
multiple RSSI thresholds CQM mechanism.
Note for marvell/mwifiex I pass 0 for the RSSI value because the new
RSSI value is not available to the driver at the time of the
cfg80211_cqm_rssi_notify call, but the driver queries the new value
immediately after that, so it is actually available just a moment later
if we wanted to defer caling cfg80211_cqm_rssi_notify until that moment.
Without this, the new cfg80211 code (patch 3) will call .get_station
which will send a duplicate HostCmd_CMD_RSSI_INFO command to the hardware.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Zaborowski <andrew.zaborowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h index d6c62ee9bd1d..cd547b864595 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h @@ -3952,6 +3952,8 @@ enum nl80211_ps_state { * %NL80211_CMD_NOTIFY_CQM. Set to 0 to turn off TX error reporting. * @NL80211_ATTR_CQM_BEACON_LOSS_EVENT: flag attribute that's set in a beacon * loss event + * @NL80211_ATTR_CQM_RSSI_LEVEL: the RSSI value in dBm that triggered the + * RSSI threshold event. * @__NL80211_ATTR_CQM_AFTER_LAST: internal * @NL80211_ATTR_CQM_MAX: highest key attribute */ @@ -3965,6 +3967,7 @@ enum nl80211_attr_cqm { NL80211_ATTR_CQM_TXE_PKTS, NL80211_ATTR_CQM_TXE_INTVL, NL80211_ATTR_CQM_BEACON_LOSS_EVENT, + NL80211_ATTR_CQM_RSSI_LEVEL, /* keep last */ __NL80211_ATTR_CQM_AFTER_LAST, |