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authorVladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>2012-07-05 15:25:49 +0400
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-07-05 17:18:30 +0400
commit8eb41c8dfb9e2396d2452ada9023a83d610b9051 (patch)
tree26bf8e96976e639a65441e3f2b1c03b1bcf2e7be /net/wireless
parentc5a7e582490c423f0685e42ee5cfb7c6de81adb0 (diff)
downloadlinux-8eb41c8dfb9e2396d2452ada9023a83d610b9051.tar.xz
{nl,cfg}80211: support high bitrates
Until now, a u16 value was used to represent bitrate value. With VHT bitrates this becomes too small. Introduce a new 32-bit bitrate attribute. nl80211 will report both the new and the old attribute, unless the bitrate doesn't fit into the old u16 attribute in which case only the new one will be reported. User space tools encouraged to prefer the 32-bit attribute, if available (since it won't be available on older kernels.) Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com> [reword commit message and comments a bit] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.c9
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/util.c2
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 77102e66f1ea..2a5cdb60bc6e 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -2618,7 +2618,8 @@ static bool nl80211_put_sta_rate(struct sk_buff *msg, struct rate_info *info,
int attr)
{
struct nlattr *rate;
- u16 bitrate;
+ u32 bitrate;
+ u16 bitrate_compat;
rate = nla_nest_start(msg, attr);
if (!rate)
@@ -2626,8 +2627,12 @@ static bool nl80211_put_sta_rate(struct sk_buff *msg, struct rate_info *info,
/* cfg80211_calculate_bitrate will return 0 for mcs >= 32 */
bitrate = cfg80211_calculate_bitrate(info);
+ /* report 16-bit bitrate only if we can */
+ bitrate_compat = bitrate < (1UL << 16) ? bitrate : 0;
if ((bitrate > 0 &&
- nla_put_u16(msg, NL80211_RATE_INFO_BITRATE, bitrate)) ||
+ nla_put_u32(msg, NL80211_RATE_INFO_BITRATE32, bitrate)) ||
+ (bitrate_compat > 0 &&
+ nla_put_u16(msg, NL80211_RATE_INFO_BITRATE, bitrate_compat)) ||
((info->flags & RATE_INFO_FLAGS_MCS) &&
nla_put_u8(msg, NL80211_RATE_INFO_MCS, info->mcs)) ||
((info->flags & RATE_INFO_FLAGS_40_MHZ_WIDTH) &&
diff --git a/net/wireless/util.c b/net/wireless/util.c
index 0228c64e73d8..6e52726f7fe3 100644
--- a/net/wireless/util.c
+++ b/net/wireless/util.c
@@ -900,7 +900,7 @@ int cfg80211_change_iface(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
return err;
}
-u16 cfg80211_calculate_bitrate(struct rate_info *rate)
+u32 cfg80211_calculate_bitrate(struct rate_info *rate)
{
int modulation, streams, bitrate;