cfg80211/mac80211: Use more generic bitrate mask for rate control
Extend struct cfg80211_bitrate_mask to actually use a bitfield mask instead of just a single fixed or maximum rate index. This change itself does not modify the behavior (except for debugfs files), but it prepares cfg80211 and mac80211 for a new nl80211 command for setting which rates can be used in TX rate control. Since frames are now going through the rate control algorithm unconditionally, the internal IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_RCALGO flag can now be removed. The RC implementations can use the rate_idx_mask value to optimize their behavior if only a single rate is enabled. The old max_rate_idx in struct ieee80211_tx_rate_control is maintained (but commented as deprecated) for backwards compatibility with existing RC implementations. Once these implementations have been updated to use the more generic rate_idx_mask, the max_rate_idx value can be removed. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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@@ -856,8 +856,12 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name,
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INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sdata->key_list);
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sdata->force_unicast_rateidx = -1;
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sdata->max_ratectrl_rateidx = -1;
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for (i = 0; i < IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS; i++) {
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struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband;
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sband = local->hw.wiphy->bands[i];
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sdata->rc_rateidx_mask[i] =
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sband ? (1 << sband->n_bitrates) - 1 : 0;
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}
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/* setup type-dependent data */
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ieee80211_setup_sdata(sdata, type);
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