cfg80211/mac80211: fill qual.qual value/adjust max_qual.qual

Due to various bugs in the software stack we end up having
to fill qual.qual; level should be used, but wpa_supplicant
doesn't properly ignore qual.qual, NM should use qual.level
regardless of that because qual.qual is 0 but doesn't handle
IW_QUAL_DBM right now.

So fill qual.qual with the qual.level value clamped to
-110..-40 dBm or just the regular 'unspecified' signal level.
This requires a mac80211 change to properly announce the
max_qual.qual and avg_qual.qual values.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/wext.c b/net/mac80211/wext.c
index 8a76a979bc9..a8d4b617191 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/wext.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/wext.c
@@ -200,10 +200,24 @@ static int ieee80211_ioctl_giwrange(struct net_device *dev,
 	else
 		range->max_qual.noise = 0;
 
-	range->max_qual.qual = 100;
 	range->max_qual.updated = ieee80211_get_wstats_flags(local);
 
-	range->avg_qual.qual = 50;
+	if (local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM) {
+		/*
+		 * cfg80211 assumes -110 to -40 dBm and clamps to that range
+		 * for qual.qual, so tell userspace this is what we give it
+		 * but take into account that we have to start from 0.
+		 */
+		range->max_qual.qual = 70;
+		range->avg_qual.qual = 35;
+	} else {
+		/*
+		 * cfg80211 just uses the level value for qual too, and it
+		 * requires the level value to be 0 .. 100.
+		 */
+		range->max_qual.qual = 100;
+		range->avg_qual.qual = 50;
+	}
 	/* not always true but better than nothing */
 	range->avg_qual.level = range->max_qual.level / 2;
 	range->avg_qual.noise = range->max_qual.noise / 2;