mac80211: deprecate RX status noise

The noise value as is won't be used, isn't
filled by most drivers and doesn't really
make a whole lot of sense on a per packet
basis -- proper cfg80211 survey support in
mac80211 will need to be different.

Mark the struct member as deprecated so it
will be removed from drivers.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index b5c48de81d8b..1da57c8e849a 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -178,14 +178,6 @@ ieee80211_add_rx_radiotap_header(struct ieee80211_local *local,
                 pos++;
         }
 
-        /* IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DBM_ANTNOISE */
-        if (local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_NOISE_DBM) {
-                *pos = status->noise;
-                rthdr->it_present |=
-                        cpu_to_le32(1 << IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DBM_ANTNOISE);
-                pos++;
-        }
-
         /* IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_LOCK_QUALITY is missing */
 
         /* IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_ANTENNA */
@@ -1077,7 +1069,6 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_sta_process(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
         sta->rx_fragments++;
         sta->rx_bytes += rx->skb->len;
         sta->last_signal = status->signal;
-        sta->last_noise = status->noise;
 
         /*
          * Change STA power saving mode only at the end of a frame