nl80211/mac80211: Report signal average
Extend nl80211 to report an exponential weighted moving average (EWMA) of the
signal value. Since the signal value usually fluctuates between different
packets, an average can be more useful than the value of the last packet.
This uses the recently added generic EWMA library function.
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v2: fix ABI breakage and change factor to be a power of 2.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
index 788c398..8764c9a 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -420,6 +420,7 @@
* @STATION_INFO_TX_RETRIES: @tx_retries filled
* @STATION_INFO_TX_FAILED: @tx_failed filled
* @STATION_INFO_RX_DROP_MISC: @rx_dropped_misc filled
+ * @STATION_INFO_SIGNAL_AVG: @signal_avg filled
*/
enum station_info_flags {
STATION_INFO_INACTIVE_TIME = 1<<0,
@@ -435,6 +436,7 @@
STATION_INFO_TX_RETRIES = 1<<10,
STATION_INFO_TX_FAILED = 1<<11,
STATION_INFO_RX_DROP_MISC = 1<<12,
+ STATION_INFO_SIGNAL_AVG = 1<<13,
};
/**
@@ -481,6 +483,7 @@
* @plid: mesh peer link id
* @plink_state: mesh peer link state
* @signal: signal strength of last received packet in dBm
+ * @signal_avg: signal strength average in dBm
* @txrate: current unicast bitrate to this station
* @rx_packets: packets received from this station
* @tx_packets: packets transmitted to this station
@@ -501,6 +504,7 @@
u16 plid;
u8 plink_state;
s8 signal;
+ s8 signal_avg;
struct rate_info txrate;
u32 rx_packets;
u32 tx_packets;