ieee80211: add new VHT capability fields/parsing
IEEE 802.11-2016 extended the VHT capability fields to allow
indicating the number of spatial streams depending on the
actually used bandwidth, add support for decoding this.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
diff --git a/include/linux/ieee80211.h b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
index 17ea51d..280600a 100644
--- a/include/linux/ieee80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
@@ -1460,13 +1460,16 @@
* STA can receive. Rate expressed in units of 1 Mbps.
* If this field is 0 this value should not be used to
* consider the highest RX data rate supported.
- * The top 3 bits of this field are reserved.
+ * The top 3 bits of this field indicate the Maximum NSTS,total
+ * (a beamformee capability.)
* @tx_mcs_map: TX MCS map 2 bits for each stream, total 8 streams
* @tx_highest: Indicates highest long GI VHT PPDU data rate
* STA can transmit. Rate expressed in units of 1 Mbps.
* If this field is 0 this value should not be used to
* consider the highest TX data rate supported.
- * The top 3 bits of this field are reserved.
+ * The top 2 bits of this field are reserved, the
+ * 3rd bit from the top indiciates VHT Extended NSS BW
+ * Capability.
*/
struct ieee80211_vht_mcs_info {
__le16 rx_mcs_map;
@@ -1475,6 +1478,13 @@
__le16 tx_highest;
} __packed;
+/* for rx_highest */
+#define IEEE80211_VHT_MAX_NSTS_TOTAL_SHIFT 13
+#define IEEE80211_VHT_MAX_NSTS_TOTAL_MASK (7 << IEEE80211_VHT_MAX_NSTS_TOTAL_SHIFT)
+
+/* for tx_highest */
+#define IEEE80211_VHT_EXT_NSS_BW_CAPABLE (1 << 13)
+
/**
* enum ieee80211_vht_mcs_support - VHT MCS support definitions
* @IEEE80211_VHT_MCS_SUPPORT_0_7: MCSes 0-7 are supported for the
@@ -1650,6 +1660,7 @@
#define IEEE80211_VHT_CAP_SUPP_CHAN_WIDTH_160MHZ 0x00000004
#define IEEE80211_VHT_CAP_SUPP_CHAN_WIDTH_160_80PLUS80MHZ 0x00000008
#define IEEE80211_VHT_CAP_SUPP_CHAN_WIDTH_MASK 0x0000000C
+#define IEEE80211_VHT_CAP_SUPP_CHAN_WIDTH_SHIFT 2
#define IEEE80211_VHT_CAP_RXLDPC 0x00000010
#define IEEE80211_VHT_CAP_SHORT_GI_80 0x00000020
#define IEEE80211_VHT_CAP_SHORT_GI_160 0x00000040
@@ -1678,6 +1689,26 @@
#define IEEE80211_VHT_CAP_VHT_LINK_ADAPTATION_VHT_MRQ_MFB 0x0c000000
#define IEEE80211_VHT_CAP_RX_ANTENNA_PATTERN 0x10000000
#define IEEE80211_VHT_CAP_TX_ANTENNA_PATTERN 0x20000000
+#define IEEE80211_VHT_CAP_EXT_NSS_BW_SHIFT 30
+#define IEEE80211_VHT_CAP_EXT_NSS_BW_MASK 0xc0000000
+
+/**
+ * ieee80211_get_vht_max_nss - return max NSS for a given bandwidth/MCS
+ * @cap: VHT capabilities of the peer
+ * @bw: bandwidth to use
+ * @mcs: MCS index to use
+ * @ext_nss_bw_capable: indicates whether or not the local transmitter
+ * (rate scaling algorithm) can deal with the new logic
+ * (dot11VHTExtendedNSSBWCapable)
+ *
+ * Due to the VHT Extended NSS Bandwidth Support, the maximum NSS can
+ * vary for a given BW/MCS. This function parses the data.
+ *
+ * Note: This function is exported by cfg80211.
+ */
+int ieee80211_get_vht_max_nss(struct ieee80211_vht_cap *cap,
+ enum ieee80211_vht_chanwidth bw,
+ int mcs, bool ext_nss_bw_capable);
/* 802.11ax HE MAC capabilities */
#define IEEE80211_HE_MAC_CAP0_HTC_HE 0x01