From 566bfe5a8bcde13188a356f77666f8115813cf31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruno Randolf Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 19:15:40 +0200 Subject: mac80211: use hardware flags for signal/noise units trying to clean up the signal/noise code. the previous code in mac80211 had confusing names for the related variables, did not have much definition of what units of signal and noise were provided and used implicit mechanisms from the wireless extensions. this patch introduces hardware capability flags to let the hardware specify clearly if it can provide signal and noise level values and which units it can provide. this also anticipates possible new units like RCPI in the future. for signal: IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC - unspecified, unknown, hw specific IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB - dB difference to unspecified reference point IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM - dBm, difference to 1mW for noise we currently only have dBm: IEEE80211_HW_NOISE_DBM - dBm, difference to 1mW if IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC or IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB is used the driver has to provide the maximum value (max_signal) it reports in order for applications to make sense of the signal values. i tried my best to find out for each driver what it can provide and update it but i'm not sure (?) for some of them and used the more conservative guess in doubt. this can be fixed easily after this patch has been merged by changing the hardware flags of the driver. DRIVER SIGNAL MAX NOISE QUAL ----------------------------------------------------------------- adm8211 unspec(?) 100 n/a missing at76_usb unspec(?) (?) unused missing ath5k dBm dBm percent rssi b43legacy dBm dBm percent jssi(?) b43 dBm dBm percent jssi(?) iwl-3945 dBm dBm percent snr+more iwl-4965 dBm dBm percent snr+more p54 unspec 127 n/a missing rt2x00 dBm n/a percent rssi+tx/rx frame success rt2400 dBm n/a rt2500pci dBm n/a rt2500usb dBm n/a rt61pci dBm n/a rt73usb dBm n/a rtl8180 unspec(?) 65 n/a (?) rtl8187 unspec(?) 65 (?) noise(?) zd1211 dB(?) 100 n/a percent drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c | 23 +++++------------------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c index 3201c1604340..dd8adaddd7a0 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c @@ -458,13 +458,11 @@ ath5k_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, /* Initialize driver private data */ SET_IEEE80211_DEV(hw, &pdev->dev); - hw->flags = IEEE80211_HW_RX_INCLUDES_FCS; + hw->flags = IEEE80211_HW_RX_INCLUDES_FCS | + IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM | + IEEE80211_HW_NOISE_DBM; hw->extra_tx_headroom = 2; hw->channel_change_time = 5000; - /* these names are misleading */ - hw->max_rssi = -110; /* signal in dBm */ - hw->max_noise = -110; /* noise in dBm */ - hw->max_signal = 100; /* we will provide a percentage based on rssi */ sc = hw->priv; sc->hw = hw; sc->pdev = pdev; @@ -1893,20 +1891,9 @@ accept: rxs.freq = sc->curchan->center_freq; rxs.band = sc->curband->band; - /* - * signal quality: - * the names here are misleading and the usage of these - * values by iwconfig makes it even worse - */ - /* noise floor in dBm, from the last noise calibration */ rxs.noise = sc->ah->ah_noise_floor; - /* signal level in dBm */ - rxs.ssi = rxs.noise + rs.rs_rssi; - /* - * "signal" is actually displayed as Link Quality by iwconfig - * we provide a percentage based on rssi (assuming max rssi 64) - */ - rxs.signal = rs.rs_rssi * 100 / 64; + rxs.signal = rxs.noise + rs.rs_rssi; + rxs.qual = rs.rs_rssi * 100 / 64; rxs.antenna = rs.rs_antenna; rxs.rate_idx = ath5k_hw_to_driver_rix(sc, rs.rs_rate); -- cgit v1.2.2