From: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
To: johannes@sipsolutions.net
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] cfg80211: Add antenna availability information
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 13:49:17 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201012081349.17449.br1@einfach.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101208034429.24218.50707.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Ah, please ignore this one and wait for v3...
bruno
On Wed December 8 2010 12:44:29 Bruno Randolf wrote:
> Add a field to wiphy for the hardware to report the availble antennas for
> configuration. Only if this is set to something bigger than zero, will the
> anntenna configuration ops be executed.
>
> Allthough this could be a simple number of antennas, I defined it as a
> bitmap of antennas which are available for configuration, since it's more
> consistent with the rest of the antenna API and there could be cases where
> the hardware allows only configuration of certain antennas. As it does not
> make much of a difference in size or normal usage, I think it's better to
> be able to support this, in case the need arises.
>
> The antenna configuration is now also checked against the availabe antennas
> and rejected if it does not match.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
>
> v2: reject antenna configurations which don't match the available antennas
> ---
> include/net/cfg80211.h | 5 +++++
> net/wireless/nl80211.c | 12 ++++++++++--
> 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
> index 8764c9a..ef6f15d 100644
> --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
> +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
> @@ -1465,6 +1465,9 @@ struct ieee80211_txrx_stypes {
> * @mgmt_stypes: bitmasks of frame subtypes that can be subscribed to or
> * transmitted through nl80211, points to an array indexed by interface
> * type
> + *
> + * @available_antennas: bitmap of antennas which are available to
> configure. + * antenna configuration commands will be rejected unless
this
> is set. */
> struct wiphy {
> /* assign these fields before you register the wiphy */
> @@ -1504,6 +1507,8 @@ struct wiphy {
>
> u8 max_num_pmkids;
>
> + u32 available_antennas;
> +
> /* If multiple wiphys are registered and you're handed e.g.
> * a regular netdev with assigned ieee80211_ptr, you won't
> * know whether it points to a wiphy your driver has registered
> diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> index 2cf0333..4f6ff31 100644
> --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> @@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ static int nl80211_send_wiphy(struct sk_buff *msg, u32
> pid, u32 seq, int flags, if (dev->wiphy.flags &
> WIPHY_FLAG_CONTROL_PORT_PROTOCOL)
> NLA_PUT_FLAG(msg, NL80211_ATTR_CONTROL_PORT_ETHERTYPE);
>
> - if (dev->ops->get_antenna) {
> + if (dev->wiphy.available_antennas && dev->ops->get_antenna) {
> u32 tx_ant = 0, rx_ant = 0;
> int res;
> res = dev->ops->get_antenna(&dev->wiphy, &tx_ant, &rx_ant);
> @@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ static int nl80211_set_wiphy(struct sk_buff *skb,
> struct genl_info *info) if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_ANTENNA_TX] &&
> info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_ANTENNA_RX]) {
> u32 tx_ant, rx_ant;
> - if (!rdev->ops->set_antenna) {
> + if (!rdev->wiphy.available_antennas || !rdev->ops->set_antenna) {
> result = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> goto bad_res;
> }
> @@ -1053,6 +1053,14 @@ static int nl80211_set_wiphy(struct sk_buff *skb,
> struct genl_info *info) tx_ant =
> nla_get_u32(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_ANTENNA_TX]); rx_ant =
> nla_get_u32(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_ANTENNA_RX]);
>
> + /* reject antenna configurations which don't match the
> + * available antenna mask, except for the "all" mask */
> + if ((~tx_ant && (tx_ant & ~rdev->wiphy.available_antennas)) ||
> + (~rx_ant && (rx_ant & ~rdev->wiphy.available_antennas))) {
> + result = -EINVAL;
> + goto bad_res;
> + }
> +
> result = rdev->ops->set_antenna(&rdev->wiphy, tx_ant, rx_ant);
> if (result)
> goto bad_res;
>
> --
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-08 4:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-08 3:44 [PATCH v2] cfg80211: Add antenna availability information Bruno Randolf
2010-12-08 4:49 ` Bruno Randolf [this message]
2010-12-08 14:31 ` John W. Linville
2010-12-10 12:47 ` Bruno Randolf
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