forge/linux-uconsole
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues 1 Pull requests Projects Releases Packages Wiki Activity Actions
linux-uconsole/include/net
History
Bruno Randolf 566bfe5a8b mac80211: use hardware flags for signal/noise units 
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: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14 16:29:49 -04:00
..
9p 9p: add support for sticky bit 2008-02-06 19:25:06 -06:00
bluetooth bluetooth: Make hci_sock_cleanup() return void 2008-03-05 18:47:03 -08:00
irda [IRDA]: Remove irlan_eth_send_gratuitous_arp() 2008-04-15 00:29:24 -07:00
iucv [AF_IUCV]: postpone receival of iucv-packets 2007-10-10 16:54:51 -07:00
netfilter netfilter: nf_conntrack: padding breaks conntrack hash on ARM 2008-04-29 03:35:10 -07:00
netns [NETNS]: The generic per-net pointers. 2008-04-15 00:36:08 -07:00
sctp sctp: add sctp/remaddr table to complete RFC remote address table OID 2008-05-09 15:14:50 -07:00
tc_act [PKT_SCHED]: Add stateless NAT 2007-10-10 16:53:11 -07:00
tipc tipc: Fix race condition when creating socket or native port 2008-05-12 15:42:28 -07:00
act_api.h [NET_SCHED]: act_api: use PTR_ERR in tcf_action_init/tcf_action_get 2008-01-28 15:11:17 -08:00
addrconf.h [IPV6]: Define constants for link-local multicast addresses. 2008-04-12 13:43:19 +09:00
af_rxrpc.h [AF_RXRPC]: Add an interface to the AF_RXRPC module for the AFS filesystem to use 2007-04-26 15:50:17 -07:00
af_unix.h [AF_UNIX]: Remove unused declaration of sysctl_unix_max_dgram_qlen. 2008-01-28 14:57:13 -08:00
ah.h [IPSEC]: Get rid of ipv6_{auth,esp,comp}_hdr 2007-10-10 16:55:55 -07:00
arp.h [NETFILTER]: ebtables: remove casts, use consts 2008-01-31 19:27:33 -08:00
atmclip.h
ax25.h [AX25] ax25_ds_timer: use mod_timer instead of add_timer 2008-02-12 17:53:34 -08:00
ax88796.h ax88796: add 93cx6 eeprom support 2007-10-10 16:53:56 -07:00
cfg80211.h nl80211/cfg80211: support for mesh, sta dumping 2008-03-06 15:30:41 -05:00
checksum.h [NET]: Move netfilter checksum helpers to net/core/utils.c 2008-01-28 14:55:14 -08:00
cipso_ipv4.h [NetLabel]: consolidate the struct socket/sock handling to just struct sock 2007-06-08 13:33:09 -07:00
compat.h net: Add compat support for getsockopt (MCAST_MSFILTER) 2008-04-29 03:23:22 -07:00
datalink.h
dn.h [DECNET]: Another unnecessary net/tcp.h inclusion in net/dn.h 2007-07-10 23:02:12 -07:00
dn_dev.h
dn_fib.h
dn_neigh.h
dn_nsp.h
dn_route.h [NET]: Wrap netdevice hardware header creation. 2007-10-10 16:52:50 -07:00
dsfield.h [NET]: Constify include/net/dsfield.h 2008-01-28 14:55:58 -08:00
dst.h [NET]: uninline dst_release 2008-03-27 17:53:31 -07:00
esp.h [IPSEC]: Use crypto_aead and authenc in ESP 2008-01-31 19:27:02 -08:00
fib_rules.h [NETNS]: Add netns refcnt debug to fib rules. 2008-04-16 02:01:56 -07:00
flow.h [IPV4]: Remove unused multipath cached routing defintion in net/flow.h 2008-01-28 15:00:20 -08:00
gen_stats.h [NET_SCHED]: Convert packet schedulers from rtnetlink to new netlink API 2008-01-28 15:11:10 -08:00
genetlink.h [GENETLINK]: Dynamic multicast groups. 2007-07-18 15:47:52 -07:00
icmp.h [NETNS][ICMP]: Move ICMP sysctls on struct net. 2008-03-26 01:55:37 -07:00
ieee80211.h remove ieee80211_wx_{get,set}_auth() 2008-05-07 15:02:14 -04:00
ieee80211_crypt.h [PATCH] Update my email address from jkmaline@cc.hut.fi to j@w1.fi 2007-04-28 11:01:01 -04:00
ieee80211_radiotap.h [MAC80211]: Add get_unaligned to ieee80211_get_radiotap_len 2007-10-10 16:47:40 -07:00
if_inet6.h [IPV6]: Reorg struct ifmcaddr6 to save some bytes 2008-02-03 04:28:54 -08:00
inet6_connection_sock.h
inet6_hashtables.h [SOCK] proto: Add hashinfo member to struct proto 2008-02-03 04:28:52 -08:00
inet_common.h [NETNS]: Inet control socket should not hold a namespace. 2008-04-03 14:28:30 -07:00
inet_connection_sock.h [INET]: Rename inet_csk_ctl_sock_create to inet_ctl_sock_create. 2008-04-03 14:22:32 -07:00
inet_ecn.h [IPV6]: Use appropriate sock tclass setting for routing lookup. 2008-04-13 23:40:51 -07:00
inet_frag.h [NET]: Rename inet_frag.h identifiers COMPLETE, FIRST_IN, LAST_IN to INET_FRAG_* 2008-03-28 16:35:27 -07:00
inet_hashtables.h [INET]: Uninline the __inet_inherit_port call. 2008-04-17 23:18:15 -07:00
inet_sock.h [IPV4,IPV6]: Share cork.rt between IPv4 and IPv6. 2008-03-25 10:23:59 +09:00
inet_timewait_sock.h [NETNS]: Compilation warnings under CONFIG_NET_NS. 2008-03-26 00:48:17 -07:00
inetpeer.h [INET]: Use list_head-s in inetpeer.c 2007-11-12 21:27:28 -08:00
ip.h [NETNS]: Add namespace parameter to ip_cmsg_send. 2008-03-24 15:30:27 -07:00
ip6_checksum.h
ip6_fib.h [NETNS][IPV6] rt6_info - move rt6_info structure inside the namespace 2008-03-04 13:48:30 -08:00
ip6_route.h [IPV6]: Make address arguments const. 2008-04-12 13:43:18 +09:00
ip6_tunnel.h [IP_TUNNEL]: Don't limit the number of tunnels with generic name explicitly. 2008-02-23 20:19:20 -08:00
ip_fib.h [IPV4]: Fix compile error building without CONFIG_FS_PROC 2008-02-05 02:54:16 -08:00
ip_vs.h ipvs: fix oops in backup for fwmark conn templates 2008-04-29 03:21:23 -07:00
ipcomp.h [IPSEC]: Get rid of ipv6_{auth,esp,comp}_hdr 2007-10-10 16:55:55 -07:00
ipconfig.h
ipip.h [IPV6] SIT: Add SIOCGETPRL ioctl to get/dump PRL. 2008-04-03 10:06:00 +09:00
ipv6.h IPv6 support for NFS server export caches 2008-04-23 16:13:36 -04:00
ipx.h
iw_handler.h [NL80211]: add netlink interface to cfg80211 2007-10-10 16:52:14 -07:00
lapb.h
llc.h [LLC]: station source mac address 2008-03-28 16:28:36 -07:00
llc_c_ac.h
llc_c_ev.h
llc_c_st.h
llc_conn.h [NET]: Make socket creation namespace safe. 2007-10-10 16:49:07 -07:00
llc_if.h [LLC]: Kill static inline llc_addrany 2008-02-29 11:46:17 -08:00
llc_pdu.h [LLC]: skb allocation size for responses 2008-03-31 21:02:47 -07:00
llc_s_ac.h
llc_s_ev.h
llc_s_st.h
llc_sap.h [LLC]: skb allocation size for responses 2008-03-31 21:02:47 -07:00
mac80211.h mac80211: use hardware flags for signal/noise units 2008-05-14 16:29:49 -04:00
mip6.h [IPV6] MIP6: Use our standard definitions for paddings. 2008-04-12 13:43:22 +09:00
ndisc.h [IPV6]: Make address arguments const. 2008-04-12 13:43:18 +09:00
neighbour.h Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-03-27 18:48:56 -07:00
net_namespace.h [NETNS]: Make netns refconting debug like a socket one. 2008-04-16 01:58:04 -07:00
netdma.h
netevent.h [NET]: Remove unnecessary inclusion of dst.h 2008-01-28 14:53:38 -08:00
netlabel.h Audit: collect sessionid in netlink messages 2008-04-28 06:18:03 -04:00
netlink.h [NETLINK]: Add nla_append() 2008-01-28 15:11:09 -08:00
netrom.h
nexthop.h
p8022.h
pkt_cls.h [PKT_SCHED]: Pass real namespace in net scheduler classifiers. 2008-03-27 16:53:37 -07:00
pkt_sched.h [NET_SCHED]: Convert packet schedulers from rtnetlink to new netlink API 2008-01-28 15:11:10 -08:00
protocol.h [NETNS]: Drop packets in the non-initial namespace on the per/protocol basis. 2008-03-24 15:33:00 -07:00
psnap.h
raw.h [RAW]: Add raw_hashinfo member on struct proto. 2008-03-22 16:56:51 -07:00
rawv6.h [IPv6] RAW: Compact the API for the kernel 2008-01-28 14:54:29 -08:00
red.h
request_sock.h [Syncookies]: Add support for TCP options via timestamps. 2008-04-10 03:12:40 -07:00
rose.h [ROSE]: Fix rose.ko oops on unload 2007-10-07 23:44:17 -07:00
route.h ipv4: Update MTU to all related cache entries in ip_rt_frag_needed() 2008-04-29 03:32:25 -07:00
rtnetlink.h [RTNL]: Introduce the rtnl_kill_links helper. 2008-04-16 00:46:52 -07:00
sch_generic.h [NET_SCHED]: Convert classifiers from rtnetlink to new netlink API 2008-01-28 15:11:11 -08:00
scm.h pid namespaces: changes to show virtual ids to user 2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
slhc_vj.h
snmp.h [XFRM]: Define packet dropping statistics. 2008-01-28 14:59:38 -08:00
sock.h [NETNS]: Add netns refcnt debug for kernel sockets. 2008-04-16 01:59:46 -07:00
syncppp.h
tcp.h [TCP]: Increase the max_burst threshold from 3 to tp->reordering. 2008-04-16 02:29:56 -07:00
tcp_states.h
timewait_sock.h
transp_v6.h [UDP]: Revert udplite and code split. 2008-03-06 16:22:02 -08:00
udp.h [SOCK][NETNS]: Add a struct net argument to sock_prot_inuse_add and _get. 2008-03-31 19:41:46 -07:00
udplite.h [UDP]: Revert udplite and code split. 2008-03-06 16:22:02 -08:00
wext.h [NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace. 2007-10-10 16:49:10 -07:00
wireless.h cfg80211: don't export ieee80211_get_channel 2008-03-27 16:03:20 -04:00
x25.h
x25device.h
xfrm.h Audit: collect sessionid in netlink messages 2008-04-28 06:18:03 -04:00