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| author | Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com> | 2011-07-08 08:46:22 -0700 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2011-07-11 15:02:06 -0400 |
| commit | 615f7b9bb1f8e0e3188470245cec44f175189084 (patch) | |
| tree | 4c0803460f682c34b11929a1fe22e150839efedb /include | |
| parent | 0a49b2c2a6bf2f774675e472afe68951900596fb (diff) | |
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mac80211: add driver RSSI threshold events
mac80211 maintains a running average of the RSSI when a STA
is associated to an AP. Report threshold events to any driver
that has registered callbacks for getting RSSI measurements.
Implement callbacks in mac80211 so that driver can set thresholds.
Add callbacks in mac80211 which is invoked when an RSSI threshold
event occurs.
mac80211: add tracing to rssi_reports api and remove extraneous fn argument
mac80211: scale up rssi thresholds from driver by 16 before storing
Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/mac80211.h | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h index b29456a945c2..8ff3d8a1377c 100644 --- a/include/net/mac80211.h +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h @@ -194,6 +194,17 @@ enum ieee80211_bss_change { #define IEEE80211_BSS_ARP_ADDR_LIST_LEN 4 /** + * enum ieee80211_rssi_event - RSSI threshold event + * An indicator for when RSSI goes below/above a certain threshold. + * @RSSI_EVENT_HIGH: AP's rssi crossed the high threshold set by the driver. + * @RSSI_EVENT_LOW: AP's rssi crossed the low threshold set by the driver. + */ +enum ieee80211_rssi_event { + RSSI_EVENT_HIGH, + RSSI_EVENT_LOW, +}; + +/** * struct ieee80211_bss_conf - holds the BSS's changing parameters * * This structure keeps information about a BSS (and an association @@ -1867,6 +1878,8 @@ enum ieee80211_ampdu_mlme_action { * @set_bitrate_mask: Set a mask of rates to be used for rate control selection * when transmitting a frame. Currently only legacy rates are handled. * The callback can sleep. + * @rssi_callback: Notify driver when the average RSSI goes above/below + * thresholds that were registered previously. The callback can sleep. */ struct ieee80211_ops { void (*tx)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb); @@ -1975,6 +1988,8 @@ struct ieee80211_ops { bool (*tx_frames_pending)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw); int (*set_bitrate_mask)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif *vif, const struct cfg80211_bitrate_mask *mask); + void (*rssi_callback)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, + enum ieee80211_rssi_event rssi_event); }; /** @@ -3316,4 +3331,9 @@ ieee80211_vif_type_p2p(struct ieee80211_vif *vif) return ieee80211_iftype_p2p(vif->type, vif->p2p); } +void ieee80211_enable_rssi_reports(struct ieee80211_vif *vif, + int rssi_min_thold, + int rssi_max_thold); + +void ieee80211_disable_rssi_reports(struct ieee80211_vif *vif); #endif /* MAC80211_H */ |