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| author |   Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | 2010-02-17 21:27:26 +0100 |
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| committer |   John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2010-03-09 15:02:53 -0500 |
| commit | 62bb2ac5cb6c2f813e151617525ec518e2d1c649 (patch) | |
| tree | 75e6d81f02580de06897fa2972b86aec881fe3c4 /include/net | |
| parent | rt2x00: Export rt2x00soc_probe from rt2x00soc (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-62bb2ac5cb6c2f813e151617525ec518e2d1c649.tar.xz linux-dev-62bb2ac5cb6c2f813e151617525ec518e2d1c649.zip | |
mac80211: deprecate RX status noise
The noise value as is won't be used, isn't
filled by most drivers and doesn't really
make a whole lot of sense on a per packet
basis -- proper cfg80211 survey support in
mac80211 will need to be different.
Mark the struct member as deprecated so it
will be removed from drivers.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/mac80211.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h index 45d7d44d7cbe..936bc410d061 100644 --- a/include/net/mac80211.h +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ enum mac80211_rx_flags { * @signal: signal strength when receiving this frame, either in dBm, in dB or * unspecified depending on the hardware capabilities flags * @IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_* - * @noise: noise when receiving this frame, in dBm. + * @noise: noise when receiving this frame, in dBm (DEPRECATED). * @antenna: antenna used * @rate_idx: index of data rate into band's supported rates or MCS index if * HT rates are use (RX_FLAG_HT) @@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ struct ieee80211_rx_status { enum ieee80211_band band; int freq; int signal; - int noise; + int noise __deprecated; int antenna; int rate_idx; int flag; |