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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-03-13 14:29:30 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-03-13 14:54:20 -0400
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mac80211: rename bss_conf timestamp to last_tsf
This value is not really very useful by itself, yet some drivers (including iwlwifi until I can figure out what it should do) use it. At least rename it to "last_tsf" to indicate the meaning and add a note that it may be really old. I suspect the value may become useful combined with the rx_status->mactime, but we don't (yet) store that value and pass it to the driver. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
-rw-r--r--include/net/mac80211.h5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 44e4dfcb5722..9a012be615ff 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -229,7 +229,8 @@ enum ieee80211_rssi_event {
* valid in station mode only while @assoc is true and if also
* requested by %IEEE80211_HW_NEED_DTIM_PERIOD (cf. also hw conf
* @ps_dtim_period)
- * @timestamp: beacon timestamp
+ * @last_tsf: last beacon's/probe response's TSF timestamp (could be old
+ * as it may have been received during scanning long ago)
* @beacon_int: beacon interval
* @assoc_capability: capabilities taken from assoc resp
* @basic_rates: bitmap of basic rates, each bit stands for an
@@ -276,7 +277,7 @@ struct ieee80211_bss_conf {
u8 dtim_period;
u16 beacon_int;
u16 assoc_capability;
- u64 timestamp;
+ u64 last_tsf;
u32 basic_rates;
int mcast_rate[IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS];
u16 ht_operation_mode;