cfg80211/mac80211: Use more generic bitrate mask for rate control
Extend struct cfg80211_bitrate_mask to actually use a bitfield mask
instead of just a single fixed or maximum rate index. This change
itself does not modify the behavior (except for debugfs files), but it
prepares cfg80211 and mac80211 for a new nl80211 command for setting
which rates can be used in TX rate control.
Since frames are now going through the rate control algorithm
unconditionally, the internal IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_RCALGO flag can now
be removed. The RC implementations can use the rate_idx_mask value to
optimize their behavior if only a single rate is enabled.
The old max_rate_idx in struct ieee80211_tx_rate_control is maintained
(but commented as deprecated) for backwards compatibility with existing
RC implementations. Once these implementations have been updated to
use the more generic rate_idx_mask, the max_rate_idx value can be
removed.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
index 264a6c9..fe140bf 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
@@ -856,8 +856,12 @@
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sdata->key_list);
- sdata->force_unicast_rateidx = -1;
- sdata->max_ratectrl_rateidx = -1;
+ for (i = 0; i < IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS; i++) {
+ struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband;
+ sband = local->hw.wiphy->bands[i];
+ sdata->rc_rateidx_mask[i] =
+ sband ? (1 << sband->n_bitrates) - 1 : 0;
+ }
/* setup type-dependent data */
ieee80211_setup_sdata(sdata, type);