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>
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
index 5cfd280..a2c18b5 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -5390,6 +5390,7 @@ void cfg80211_mgmt_tx_status(struct wireless_dev *wdev, u64 cookie,
* cfg80211_cqm_rssi_notify - connection quality monitoring rssi event
* @dev: network device
* @rssi_event: the triggered RSSI event
+ * @rssi_level: new RSSI level value or 0 if not available
* @gfp: context flags
*
* This function is called when a configured connection quality monitoring
@@ -5397,7 +5398,7 @@ void cfg80211_mgmt_tx_status(struct wireless_dev *wdev, u64 cookie,
*/
void cfg80211_cqm_rssi_notify(struct net_device *dev,
enum nl80211_cqm_rssi_threshold_event rssi_event,
- gfp_t gfp);
+ s32 rssi_level, gfp_t gfp);
/**
* cfg80211_cqm_pktloss_notify - notify userspace about packetloss to peer