nl80211/mac80211: Report signal average

Extend nl80211 to report an exponential weighted moving average (EWMA) of the
signal value. Since the signal value usually fluctuates between different
packets, an average can be more useful than the value of the last packet.

This uses the recently added generic EWMA library function.

--
v2:	fix ABI breakage and change factor to be a power of 2.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nl80211.h b/include/linux/nl80211.h
index 410a06ea551b..8e28053ea423 100644
--- a/include/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -1191,6 +1191,7 @@ enum nl80211_rate_info {
  *      station)
  * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_RETRIES: total retries (u32, to this station)
  * @NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_FAILED: total failed packets (u32, to this station)
+ * @NL80211_STA_INFO_SIGNAL_AVG: signal strength average (u8, dBm)
  */
 enum nl80211_sta_info {
         __NL80211_STA_INFO_INVALID,
@@ -1206,6 +1207,7 @@ enum nl80211_sta_info {
         NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_PACKETS,
         NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_RETRIES,
         NL80211_STA_INFO_TX_FAILED,
+        NL80211_STA_INFO_SIGNAL_AVG,
 
         /* keep last */
         __NL80211_STA_INFO_AFTER_LAST,
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
index 788c3989a9e8..8764c9a5bab7 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -420,6 +420,7 @@ struct station_parameters {
  * @STATION_INFO_TX_RETRIES: @tx_retries filled
  * @STATION_INFO_TX_FAILED: @tx_failed filled
  * @STATION_INFO_RX_DROP_MISC: @rx_dropped_misc filled
+ * @STATION_INFO_SIGNAL_AVG: @signal_avg filled
  */
 enum station_info_flags {
         STATION_INFO_INACTIVE_TIME      = 1<<0,
@@ -435,6 +436,7 @@ enum station_info_flags {
         STATION_INFO_TX_RETRIES         = 1<<10,
         STATION_INFO_TX_FAILED          = 1<<11,
         STATION_INFO_RX_DROP_MISC       = 1<<12,
+        STATION_INFO_SIGNAL_AVG         = 1<<13,
 };
 
 /**
@@ -481,6 +483,7 @@ struct rate_info {
  * @plid: mesh peer link id
  * @plink_state: mesh peer link state
  * @signal: signal strength of last received packet in dBm
+ * @signal_avg: signal strength average in dBm
  * @txrate: current unicast bitrate to this station
  * @rx_packets: packets received from this station
  * @tx_packets: packets transmitted to this station
@@ -501,6 +504,7 @@ struct station_info {
         u16 plid;
         u8 plink_state;
         s8 signal;
+        s8 signal_avg;
         struct rate_info txrate;
         u32 rx_packets;
         u32 tx_packets;