lib: Add generic exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) function

This adds generic functions for calculating Exponentially Weighted Moving
Averages (EWMA). This implementation makes use of a structure which keeps the
EWMA parameters and a scaled up internal representation to reduce rounding
errors.

The original idea for this implementation came from the rt2x00 driver
(rt2x00link.c). I would like to use it in several places in the mac80211 and
ath5k code and I hope it can be useful in many other places in the kernel code.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig
index fa9bf2c06199..3116aa631af6 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig
+++ b/lib/Kconfig
@@ -210,4 +210,7 @@ config GENERIC_ATOMIC64
 config LRU_CACHE
         tristate
 
+config AVERAGE
+        bool
+
 endmenu