nl80211: Add signal strength and bandwith to nl80211station info

This patch adds signal strength and transmission bitrate
to the station_info of nl80211.

Signed-off-by: Henning Rogge <rogge@fgan.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nl80211.h b/include/linux/nl80211.h
index 04d4516f9c71..7501acfcfdc4 100644
--- a/include/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -425,6 +425,32 @@ enum nl80211_sta_flags {
 };
 
 /**
+ * enum nl80211_rate_info - bitrate information
+ *
+ * These attribute types are used with %NL80211_STA_INFO_TXRATE
+ * when getting information about the bitrate of a station.
+ *
+ * @__NL80211_RATE_INFO_INVALID: attribute number 0 is reserved
+ * @NL80211_RATE_INFO_BITRATE: total bitrate (u16, 100kbit/s)
+ * @NL80211_RATE_INFO_MCS: mcs index for 802.11n (u8)
+ * @NL80211_RATE_INFO_40_MHZ_WIDTH: 40 Mhz dualchannel bitrate
+ * @NL80211_RATE_INFO_SHORT_GI: 400ns guard interval
+ * @NL80211_RATE_INFO_MAX: highest rate_info number currently defined
+ * @__NL80211_RATE_INFO_AFTER_LAST: internal use
+ */
+enum nl80211_rate_info {
+        __NL80211_RATE_INFO_INVALID,
+        NL80211_RATE_INFO_BITRATE,
+        NL80211_RATE_INFO_MCS,
+        NL80211_RATE_INFO_40_MHZ_WIDTH,
+        NL80211_RATE_INFO_SHORT_GI,
+
+        /* keep last */
+        __NL80211_RATE_INFO_AFTER_LAST,
+        NL80211_RATE_INFO_MAX = __NL80211_RATE_INFO_AFTER_LAST - 1
+};
+
+/**
  * enum nl80211_sta_info - station information
  *
  * These attribute types are used with %NL80211_ATTR_STA_INFO
@@ -436,6 +462,9 @@ enum nl80211_sta_flags {
  * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BYTES: total transmitted bytes (u32, to this station)
  * @__NL80211_STA_INFO_AFTER_LAST: internal
  * @NL80211_STA_INFO_MAX: highest possible station info attribute
+ * @NL80211_STA_INFO_SIGNAL: signal strength of last received PPDU (u8, dBm)
+ * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BITRATE: current unicast tx rate, nested attribute
+ *      containing info as possible, see &enum nl80211_sta_info_txrate.
  */
 enum nl80211_sta_info {
         __NL80211_STA_INFO_INVALID,
@@ -445,6 +474,8 @@ enum nl80211_sta_info {
         NL80211_STA_INFO_LLID,
         NL80211_STA_INFO_PLID,
         NL80211_STA_INFO_PLINK_STATE,
+        NL80211_STA_INFO_SIGNAL,
+        NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_BITRATE,
 
         /* keep last */
         __NL80211_STA_INFO_AFTER_LAST,