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mac80211: Populate radiotap header with MCS info for TX frames

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mac80211 already filled in the MCS rate info for rx'ed frames but tx'ed
frames that are sent to a monitor interface during the status callback
lack this information.

Add the radiotap fields for MCS info to ieee80211_tx_status_rtap_hdr
and populate them when sending tx'ed frames to the monitors.

The needed headroom is only extended by one byte since we don't include
legacy rate information in the rtap header for HT frames.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Helmut Schaa 2011-10-11 18:08:55 +02:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent a2fe816674
commit 7f2a5e214d
2 changed files with 24 additions and 1 deletions
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include/net/mac80211.h
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@ -2522,7 +2522,7 @@ static inline int ieee80211_sta_ps_transition_ni(struct ieee80211_sta *sta,
* The TX headroom reserved by mac80211 for its own tx_status functions.
* This is enough for the radiotap header.
*/
#define IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_HEADROOM 13
#define IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_HEADROOM 14
/**
* ieee80211_sta_set_buffered - inform mac80211 about driver-buffered frames

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net/mac80211/status.c
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@ -243,6 +243,11 @@ static int ieee80211_tx_radiotap_len(struct ieee80211_tx_info *info)
/* IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DATA_RETRIES */
len += 1;
/* IEEE80211_TX_RC_MCS */
if (info->status.rates[0].idx >= 0 &&
info->status.rates[0].flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_MCS)
len += 3;
return len;
}
@ -299,6 +304,24 @@ static void ieee80211_add_tx_radiotap_header(struct ieee80211_supported_band
/* for now report the total retry_count */
*pos = retry_count;
pos++;
/* IEEE80211_TX_RC_MCS */
if (info->status.rates[0].idx >= 0 &&
info->status.rates[0].flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_MCS) {
rthdr->it_present |= cpu_to_le32(1 << IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_MCS);
pos[0] = IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_MCS_HAVE_MCS |
IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_MCS_HAVE_GI |
IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_MCS_HAVE_BW;
if (info->status.rates[0].flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_SHORT_GI)
pos[1] |= IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_MCS_SGI;
if (info->status.rates[0].flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_40_MHZ_WIDTH)
pos[1] |= IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_MCS_BW_40;
if (info->status.rates[0].flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_GREEN_FIELD)
pos[1] |= IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_MCS_FMT_GF;
pos[2] = info->status.rates[0].idx;
pos += 3;
}
}
/*