From 04b7b2ff50fc77380c1e711f1d7223734547e41b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 13:41:37 +0200 Subject: mac80211: handle power constraint/country IE better Currently, mac80211 uses the power constraint IE, and reduces the regulatory max TX power by it. This can cause issues if the AP is advertising a large power constraint value matching a high TX power in its country IE, for example in this case: ... Country: US Environment: Indoor/Outdoor ... Channels [157 - 157] @ 30 dBm ... Power constraint: 13 dB ... What happened here is that our local regulatory TX power is 15 dBm, and gets reduced by 13 dB so we end up with only 2 dBm effective TX power, which is way too low. Instead, handle the country IE/power constraint IE combined and restrict our TX power to the max of the regulatory power and the maximum power advertised by the AP, in this case 17 dBm (= 30 dBm - 13 dB). Also print a message when this happens to let the user know and help us debug issues with it. Reported-by: Carl A. Cook Tested-by: Carl A. Cook Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h') diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h index d11a6f837d6..8c804550465 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h +++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h @@ -1059,7 +1059,7 @@ struct ieee80211_local { bool disable_dynamic_ps; int user_power_level; /* in dBm */ - int power_constr_level; /* in dBm */ + int ap_power_level; /* in dBm */ enum ieee80211_smps_mode smps_mode; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2