mac80211: share STA information with driver
This patch changes mac80211 to share some more data about
stations with drivers. Should help iwlwifi and ath9k when
they get around to updating, and might also help with
implementing rate control algorithms without internals.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
index 2200799..e7ce12d 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
@@ -218,6 +218,7 @@
* @plink_timeout: TBD
* @plink_timer: TBD
* @debugfs: debug filesystem info
+ * @sta: station information we share with the driver
*/
struct sta_info {
/* General information, mostly static */
@@ -232,8 +233,7 @@
spinlock_t flaglock;
struct ieee80211_ht_info ht_info;
u64 supp_rates[IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS];
- u8 addr[ETH_ALEN];
- u16 aid;
+
u16 listen_interval;
/*
@@ -327,6 +327,9 @@
struct dentry *agg_status;
} debugfs;
#endif
+
+ /* keep last! */
+ struct ieee80211_sta sta;
};
static inline enum plink_state sta_plink_state(struct sta_info *sta)