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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-03-05 22:18:41 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-03-06 15:16:05 -0500
commit804483e90794256f9ed53e795ffbf1e94de237c8 (patch)
tree22a4d8ade674bb42aaf4d3e878dfd6a73b618dcc /include/linux
parent769009b89d8c29c410a99eee3cd63764b1fff869 (diff)
cfg80211/mac80211: report signal strength for mgmt frames
Add the signal strength (in dBm only for now) to frames that are received via nl80211's various frame APIs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/nl80211.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/nl80211.h b/include/linux/nl80211.h
index 9f46c62b1ee..c37d67add09 100644
--- a/include/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -1203,6 +1203,10 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
* the list. This needs to be used when the driver advertises the
* capability to timeout the stations.
*
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_RX_SIGNAL_DBM: signal strength in dBm (as a 32-bit int);
+ * this attribute is (depending on the driver capabilities) added to
+ * received frames indicated with %NL80211_CMD_FRAME.
+ *
* @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined
* @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use
*/
@@ -1450,6 +1454,8 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
NL80211_ATTR_INACTIVITY_TIMEOUT,
+ NL80211_ATTR_RX_SIGNAL_DBM,
+
/* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,