cfg80211/mac80211: Use more generic bitrate mask for rate control

Extend struct cfg80211_bitrate_mask to actually use a bitfield mask
instead of just a single fixed or maximum rate index. This change
itself does not modify the behavior (except for debugfs files), but it
prepares cfg80211 and mac80211 for a new nl80211 command for setting
which rates can be used in TX rate control.

Since frames are now going through the rate control algorithm
unconditionally, the internal IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_RCALGO flag can now
be removed. The RC implementations can use the rate_idx_mask value to
optimize their behavior if only a single rate is enabled.

The old max_rate_idx in struct ieee80211_tx_rate_control is maintained
(but commented as deprecated) for backwards compatibility with existing
RC implementations. Once these implementations have been updated to
use the more generic rate_idx_mask, the max_rate_idx value can be
removed.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c b/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c
index 59f6e3bcbd09..1481049f0f71 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c
@@ -127,8 +127,10 @@ __IEEE80211_IF_FILE(name, ieee80211_if_write_##name)
 
 /* common attributes */
 IEEE80211_IF_FILE(drop_unencrypted, drop_unencrypted, DEC);
-IEEE80211_IF_FILE(force_unicast_rateidx, force_unicast_rateidx, DEC);
-IEEE80211_IF_FILE(max_ratectrl_rateidx, max_ratectrl_rateidx, DEC);
+IEEE80211_IF_FILE(rc_rateidx_mask_2ghz, rc_rateidx_mask[IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ],
+                  HEX);
+IEEE80211_IF_FILE(rc_rateidx_mask_5ghz, rc_rateidx_mask[IEEE80211_BAND_5GHZ],
+                  HEX);
 
 /* STA attributes */
 IEEE80211_IF_FILE(bssid, u.mgd.bssid, MAC);
@@ -264,8 +266,8 @@ IEEE80211_IF_FILE(dot11MeshHWMPRootMode,
 static void add_sta_files(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
 {
         DEBUGFS_ADD(drop_unencrypted, sta);
-        DEBUGFS_ADD(force_unicast_rateidx, sta);
-        DEBUGFS_ADD(max_ratectrl_rateidx, sta);
+        DEBUGFS_ADD(rc_rateidx_mask_2ghz, sta);
+        DEBUGFS_ADD(rc_rateidx_mask_5ghz, sta);
 
         DEBUGFS_ADD(bssid, sta);
         DEBUGFS_ADD(aid, sta);
@@ -275,8 +277,8 @@ static void add_sta_files(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
 static void add_ap_files(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
 {
         DEBUGFS_ADD(drop_unencrypted, ap);
-        DEBUGFS_ADD(force_unicast_rateidx, ap);
-        DEBUGFS_ADD(max_ratectrl_rateidx, ap);
+        DEBUGFS_ADD(rc_rateidx_mask_2ghz, ap);
+        DEBUGFS_ADD(rc_rateidx_mask_5ghz, ap);
 
         DEBUGFS_ADD(num_sta_ps, ap);
         DEBUGFS_ADD(dtim_count, ap);
@@ -286,8 +288,8 @@ static void add_ap_files(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
 static void add_wds_files(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
 {
         DEBUGFS_ADD(drop_unencrypted, wds);
-        DEBUGFS_ADD(force_unicast_rateidx, wds);
-        DEBUGFS_ADD(max_ratectrl_rateidx, wds);
+        DEBUGFS_ADD(rc_rateidx_mask_2ghz, wds);
+        DEBUGFS_ADD(rc_rateidx_mask_5ghz, wds);
 
         DEBUGFS_ADD(peer, wds);
 }
@@ -295,8 +297,8 @@ static void add_wds_files(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
 static void add_vlan_files(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
 {
         DEBUGFS_ADD(drop_unencrypted, vlan);
-        DEBUGFS_ADD(force_unicast_rateidx, vlan);
-        DEBUGFS_ADD(max_ratectrl_rateidx, vlan);
+        DEBUGFS_ADD(rc_rateidx_mask_2ghz, vlan);
+        DEBUGFS_ADD(rc_rateidx_mask_5ghz, vlan);
 }
 
 static void add_monitor_files(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)