[PATCH 1/2] b43: implement PPR (Power Per Rate) management/API
Rafał Miłecki
zajec5 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 20 04:34:23 PDT 2014
On 20 July 2014 13:19, Michael Büsch <m at bues.ch> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 13:00:21 +0200
> Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> +#define B43_PPR_CCK_RATES_NUM 4
>> +#define B43_PPR_OFDM_RATES_NUM 8
>> +#define B43_PPR_MCS_RATES_NUM 8
>> +
>> +#define B43_PPR_RATES_NUM (B43_PPR_CCK_RATES_NUM + \
>> + B43_PPR_OFDM_RATES_NUM * 2 + \
>> + B43_PPR_MCS_RATES_NUM * 4)
>> +
>> +struct b43_ppr_rates {
>> + u8 cck[B43_PPR_CCK_RATES_NUM];
>> + u8 ofdm[B43_PPR_OFDM_RATES_NUM];
>> + u8 ofdm_20_cdd[B43_PPR_OFDM_RATES_NUM];
>> + u8 mcs_20[B43_PPR_MCS_RATES_NUM]; /* SISO */
>> + u8 mcs_20_cdd[B43_PPR_MCS_RATES_NUM];
>> + u8 mcs_20_stbc[B43_PPR_MCS_RATES_NUM];
>> + u8 mcs_20_sdm[B43_PPR_MCS_RATES_NUM];
>> +} __packed;
>> +
>> +struct b43_ppr {
>> + /* All powers are in qdbm (Q5.2) */
>> + union {
>> + u8 __all_rates[B43_PPR_RATES_NUM];
>> + struct b43_ppr_rates rates;
>> + } __packed;
>
> I don't think this union has to be packed.
> And most likely struct b43_ppr_rates is ok without packing, too.
> You could probably remove it there and add a BUILD_BUG which checks something like (pseudocode):
> BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct b43_ppr_rates.mcs_20_sdm) != B43_PPR_CCK_RATES_NUM + B43_PPR_OFDM_RATES_NUM * 2 + B43_PPR_MCS_RATES_NUM * 3);
>
> Removing packed will produce much nicer code.
Thanks for your comments. I'll rework this.
John: please wait for V2
Btw. I was waiting for comments since Monday you slug (just kidding!) ;)
--
Rafał
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