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author | Andrzej Zaborowski <andrew.zaborowski@intel.com> | 2017-01-25 12:43:41 +0100 |
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committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2017-02-08 10:43:40 +0100 |
commit | bee427b86217b78a0a5fc85575cc155e4c32bbf9 (patch) | |
tree | c145ffd541ff7a8081ae1f52ad785ea02b2aeeda /tools/perf/design.txt | |
parent | 769f07d8f0fb6a68a0eda6308bbe890bff894fd7 (diff) |
cfg80211: Pass new RSSI level in CQM RSSI notification
Update the drivers to pass the RSSI level as a cfg80211_cqm_rssi_notify
parameter and pass this value to userspace in a new nl80211 attribute.
This helps both userspace and also helps in the implementation of the
multiple RSSI thresholds CQM mechanism.
Note for marvell/mwifiex I pass 0 for the RSSI value because the new
RSSI value is not available to the driver at the time of the
cfg80211_cqm_rssi_notify call, but the driver queries the new value
immediately after that, so it is actually available just a moment later
if we wanted to defer caling cfg80211_cqm_rssi_notify until that moment.
Without this, the new cfg80211 code (patch 3) will call .get_station
which will send a duplicate HostCmd_CMD_RSSI_INFO command to the hardware.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Zaborowski <andrew.zaborowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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