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Re: [PATCH v2] cfg80211: Add antenna availability information

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Ah, please ignore this one and wait for v3...

bruno

On Wed December 8 2010 12:44:29 Bruno Randolf wrote:
> Add a field to wiphy for the hardware to report the availble antennas for
> configuration. Only if this is set to something bigger than zero, will the
> anntenna configuration ops be executed.
> 
> Allthough this could be a simple number of antennas, I defined it as a
> bitmap of antennas which are available for configuration, since it's more
> consistent with the rest of the antenna API and there could be cases where
> the hardware allows only configuration of certain antennas. As it does not
> make much of a difference in size or normal usage, I think it's better to
> be able to support this, in case the need arises.
> 
> The antenna configuration is now also checked against the availabe antennas
> and rejected if it does not match.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> v2:	reject antenna configurations which don't match the available antennas
> ---
>  include/net/cfg80211.h |    5 +++++
>  net/wireless/nl80211.c |   12 ++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
> index 8764c9a..ef6f15d 100644
> --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
> +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
> @@ -1465,6 +1465,9 @@ struct ieee80211_txrx_stypes {
>   * @mgmt_stypes: bitmasks of frame subtypes that can be subscribed to or
>   *	transmitted through nl80211, points to an array indexed by interface
>   *	type
> + *
> + * @available_antennas: bitmap of antennas which are available to
> configure. + *	antenna configuration commands will be rejected unless 
this
> is set. */
>  struct wiphy {
>  	/* assign these fields before you register the wiphy */
> @@ -1504,6 +1507,8 @@ struct wiphy {
> 
>  	u8 max_num_pmkids;
> 
> +	u32 available_antennas;
> +
>  	/* If multiple wiphys are registered and you're handed e.g.
>  	 * a regular netdev with assigned ieee80211_ptr, you won't
>  	 * know whether it points to a wiphy your driver has registered
> diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> index 2cf0333..4f6ff31 100644
> --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> @@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ static int nl80211_send_wiphy(struct sk_buff *msg, u32
> pid, u32 seq, int flags, if (dev->wiphy.flags &
> WIPHY_FLAG_CONTROL_PORT_PROTOCOL)
>  		NLA_PUT_FLAG(msg, NL80211_ATTR_CONTROL_PORT_ETHERTYPE);
> 
> -	if (dev->ops->get_antenna) {
> +	if (dev->wiphy.available_antennas && dev->ops->get_antenna) {
>  		u32 tx_ant = 0, rx_ant = 0;
>  		int res;
>  		res = dev->ops->get_antenna(&dev->wiphy, &tx_ant, &rx_ant);
> @@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ static int nl80211_set_wiphy(struct sk_buff *skb,
> struct genl_info *info) if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_ANTENNA_TX] &&
>  	    info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_ANTENNA_RX]) {
>  		u32 tx_ant, rx_ant;
> -		if (!rdev->ops->set_antenna) {
> +		if (!rdev->wiphy.available_antennas || !rdev->ops->set_antenna) {
>  			result = -EOPNOTSUPP;
>  			goto bad_res;
>  		}
> @@ -1053,6 +1053,14 @@ static int nl80211_set_wiphy(struct sk_buff *skb,
> struct genl_info *info) tx_ant =
> nla_get_u32(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_ANTENNA_TX]); rx_ant =
> nla_get_u32(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_ANTENNA_RX]);
> 
> +		/* reject antenna configurations which don't match the
> +		 * available antenna mask, except for the "all" mask */
> +		if ((~tx_ant && (tx_ant & ~rdev->wiphy.available_antennas)) ||
> +		    (~rx_ant && (rx_ant & ~rdev->wiphy.available_antennas))) {
> +			result = -EINVAL;
> +			goto bad_res;
> +		}
> +
>  		result = rdev->ops->set_antenna(&rdev->wiphy, tx_ant, rx_ant);
>  		if (result)
>  			goto bad_res;
> 
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