mac80211: add an rx flag for ignoring a packet's signal strength
For A-MPDU rx it makes sense to only process the signal strength once per
aggregate instead of once per subframe. Additonally, some hardware (e.g.
Atheros) only provides valid signal strength information for the last
subframe.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 3cf011f..f3b515d 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -177,7 +177,8 @@
pos += 2;
/* IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DBM_ANTSIGNAL */
- if (local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM) {
+ if (local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM &&
+ !(status->flag & RX_FLAG_NO_SIGNAL_VAL)) {
*pos = status->signal;
rthdr->it_present |=
cpu_to_le32(1 << IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DBM_ANTSIGNAL);
@@ -1309,8 +1310,10 @@
sta->rx_fragments++;
sta->rx_bytes += rx->skb->len;
- sta->last_signal = status->signal;
- ewma_add(&sta->avg_signal, -status->signal);
+ if (!(status->flag & RX_FLAG_NO_SIGNAL_VAL)) {
+ sta->last_signal = status->signal;
+ ewma_add(&sta->avg_signal, -status->signal);
+ }
/*
* Change STA power saving mode only at the end of a frame
