This patch adds two hardware flags for drivers to indicate their
transmit power control (TPC) capabilities: TPC per packet or TPC
per mrr stage of each data packet. The driver has to register with its
TPC capabilities when it is registering at the mac80211.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas.huehn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jonas Jelonek <jelonek.jonas@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/net/mac80211.h | 9 +++++++++
net/mac80211/debugfs.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 659662f8b5dd..ce3241313e06 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -2564,6 +2564,13 @@ struct ieee80211_txq {
* @IEEE80211_HW_MLO_MCAST_MULTI_LINK_TX: Hardware/driver handles transmitting
* multicast frames on all links, mac80211 should not do that.
*
+ * @IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_TPC_PER_PACKET: The hardware/driver supports transmit
+ * power control (TPC) with one power level per data packet.
+ *
+ * @IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_TPC_PER_MRR: The hardware/driver supports transmit
+ * power control (TPC) with individual power levels for each
+ * multi-rate-retry (mrr) stage per packet.
+ *
* @NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS: number of hardware flags, used for sizing arrays
*/
enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
@@ -2621,6 +2628,8 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_CONC_MON_RX_DECAP,
IEEE80211_HW_DETECTS_COLOR_COLLISION,
IEEE80211_HW_MLO_MCAST_MULTI_LINK_TX,
+ IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_TPC_PER_PACKET,
+ IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_TPC_PER_MRR,
/* keep last, obviously */
NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS
diff --git a/net/mac80211/debugfs.c b/net/mac80211/debugfs.c
index 78c7d60e8667..daeef1e04cb5 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/debugfs.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/debugfs.c
@@ -496,6 +496,8 @@ static const char *hw_flag_names[] = {
FLAG(SUPPORTS_CONC_MON_RX_DECAP),
FLAG(DETECTS_COLOR_COLLISION),
FLAG(MLO_MCAST_MULTI_LINK_TX),
+ FLAG(SUPPORTS_TPC_PER_PACKET),
+ FLAG(SUPPORTS_TPC_PER_MRR),
#undef FLAG
};
--
2.30.2
