mwifiex: corrections in timestamp related code
authorAmitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:36:52 +0000 (21:36 -0700)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:57:15 +0000 (14:57 -0400)
commitb5abcf0219263f4e961dca71cbe26e06c5b0ee68
tree8e8898fd6b41a13a24098b762d2f2be8a50869c0
parent9558a407dd00f6cd7f93b923768e8ee255fa4444
mwifiex: corrections in timestamp related code

We get two timing related fields for each bss from firmware in scan
results.
1) timestamp - Actual timestamp information in probe response/beacon
2) network_tsf - firmware's TSF value at the time the beacon or probe
response was received.
Both are needed while associating by firmware.

The patch takes care of following things.
1) We should pass "timestamp" to cfg80211_inform_bss(), but currently
"network_tsf" is being provided. This error is corrected here.
2) Rename "network_tsf" to "fw_tsf"
3) Make use of u64 variable instead of an array of u8/u32 to save
parsed "timestamp" information.
4) Use timestamp provided to stack in scan results using
cfg80211_inform_bss() while associating. (bss->tsf)
5) Allocate space to save fw_tsf in "priv" of cfg80211_bss
and retrieve it while associating.

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/fw.h
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/join.c
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.h
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c