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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2014-11-14 15:43:50 (GMT) |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2015-01-08 14:27:54 (GMT) |
| commit | 11f78ac32b06648c1dde9371b70323168b51a83e (patch) | |
| tree | 2cea75cf1a053308f980dc69ebc9e7e7cd7a59e6 /include | |
| parent | 4ed20bebf51578229a1986efcf46344075ec8447 (diff) | |
| download | linux-11f78ac32b06648c1dde9371b70323168b51a83e.tar.xz | |
cfg80211: allow survey data to return global data
Not all devices are able to report survey data (particularly
time spent for various operations) per channel. As all these
statistics already exist in survey data, allow such devices
to report them (if userspace requested it)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/cfg80211.h | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 16 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h index 3b489f8..5a86144 100644 --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h @@ -542,7 +542,8 @@ enum survey_info_flags { /** * struct survey_info - channel survey response * - * @channel: the channel this survey record reports, mandatory + * @channel: the channel this survey record reports, may be %NULL for a single + * record to report global statistics * @filled: bitflag of flags from &enum survey_info_flags * @noise: channel noise in dBm. This and all following fields are * optional diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h index 1a5acc8..5e8b65f 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h @@ -1727,6 +1727,14 @@ enum nl80211_commands { * is located at bit 0 of byte 0. bit index 25 would be located at bit 1 * of byte 3 (u8 array). * + * @NL80211_ATTR_SURVEY_RADIO_STATS: Request overall radio statistics to be + * returned along with other survey data. If set, @NL80211_CMD_GET_SURVEY + * may return a survey entry without a channel indicating global radio + * statistics (only some values are valid and make sense.) + * For devices that don't return such an entry even then, the information + * should be contained in the result as the sum of the respective counters + * over all channels. + * * @NUM_NL80211_ATTR: total number of nl80211_attrs available * @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined * @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use @@ -2088,6 +2096,8 @@ enum nl80211_attrs { NL80211_ATTR_EXT_FEATURES, + NL80211_ATTR_SURVEY_RADIO_STATS, + /* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */ __NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST, @@ -2816,15 +2826,15 @@ enum nl80211_user_reg_hint_type { * @NL80211_SURVEY_INFO_NOISE: noise level of channel (u8, dBm) * @NL80211_SURVEY_INFO_IN_USE: channel is currently being used * @NL80211_SURVEY_INFO_TIME: amount of time (in ms) that the radio - * spent on this channel + * was turned on (on channel or globally) * @NL80211_SURVEY_INFO_TIME_BUSY: amount of the time the primary * channel was sensed busy (either due to activity or energy detect) * @NL80211_SURVEY_INFO_TIME_EXT_BUSY: amount of time the extension * channel was sensed busy * @NL80211_SURVEY_INFO_TIME_RX: amount of time the radio spent - * receiving data + * receiving data (on channel or globally) * @NL80211_SURVEY_INFO_TIME_TX: amount of time the radio spent - * transmitting data + * transmitting data (on channel or globally) * @NL80211_SURVEY_INFO_MAX: highest survey info attribute number * currently defined * @__NL80211_SURVEY_INFO_AFTER_LAST: internal use |