[PATCH v3 3/3] wcn36xx: Implement downstream compliant beacon filtering

[Kalle Valo]

Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue at linaro.org> writes:

> Downstream facilitates the direct programming of beacon filter tables via
> SMD commands.
>
> The purpose of beacon filters is quote:
>
> /* When beacon filtering is enabled, firmware will
>  * analyze the selected beacons received during BMPS,
>  * and monitor any changes in the IEs as listed below.
>  * The format of the table is:
>  *    - EID
>  *    - Check for IE presence
>  *    - Byte offset
>  *    - Byte value
>  *    - Bit Mask
>  *    - Byte reference
>  */
>
> The default downstream firmware filter table looks something like this:
> tBeaconFilterIe gaBcnFilterTable[12] =
> {
>   { WLAN_EID_DS_PARAMS, 0u, { 0u, 0u, 0u, 0u } },
>   { WLAN_EID_ERP_INFO, 0u, { 0u, 0u, 248u, 0u } },
>   { WLAN_EID_EDCA_PARAM_SET, 0u, { 0u, 0u, 240u, 0u } },
>   { WLAN_EID_QOS_CAPA, 0u, { 0u, 0u, 240u, 0u } },
>   { WLAN_EID_CHANNEL_SWITCH, 1u, { 0u, 0u, 0u, 0u } },
>   { WLAN_EID_QUIET, 1u, { 0u, 0u, 0u, 0u } },
>   { WLAN_EID_HT_OPERATION, 0u, { 0u, 0u, 0u, 0u } },
>   { WLAN_EID_HT_OPERATION, 0u, { 1u, 0u, 248u, 0u } },
>   { WLAN_EID_HT_OPERATION, 0u, { 2u, 0u, 235u, 0u } },
>   { WLAN_EID_HT_OPERATION, 0u, { 5u, 0u, 253u, 0u } },
>   { WLAN_EID_PWR_CONSTRAINT, 0u, { 0u, 0u, 0u, 0u } },
>   { WLAN_EID_OPMODE_NOTIF, 0u, { 0u, 0u, 0u, 0u } }
> };
>
> Add in an equivalent filter set as present in the downstream Linux driver.
> For now omit the beacon filter "rem" command as downstream does not have an
> explicit call to that SMD command. The filter mask should only count when
> we are inside BMPS anyway.
>
> Replicating the downstream ability to program the filter table gives us
> scope to add and remove elements in future. For now though this patch
> makes the rote-copy of the downstream Linux beacon filter table, which we
> can tweak as desired from now on.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue at linaro.org>

[...]

> +static struct beacon_filter_ie bcn_filter_ies[] = {
> +	BEACON_FILTER(WLAN_EID_DS_PARAMS, 0, 0, 0,
> +		      WCN36XX_FILTER_IE_DS_CHANNEL_MASK, 0),
> +	BEACON_FILTER(WLAN_EID_ERP_INFO, 0, 0, 0,
> +		      WCN36XX_FILTER_IE_ERP_FILTER_MASK, 0),
> +	BEACON_FILTER(WLAN_EID_EDCA_PARAM_SET, 0, 0, 0,
> +		      WCN36XX_FILTER_IE_EDCA_FILTER_MASK, 0),
> +	BEACON_FILTER(WLAN_EID_QOS_CAPA, 0, 0, 0,
> +		      WCN36XX_FILTER_IE_QOS_FILTER_MASK, 0),
> +	BEACON_FILTER(WLAN_EID_CHANNEL_SWITCH, 1, 0, 0,
> +		      WCN36XX_FILTER_IE_CHANNEL_SWITCH_MASK, 0),
> +	BEACON_FILTER(WLAN_EID_HT_OPERATION, 0, 0, 0,
> +		      WCN36XX_FILTER_IE_HT_BYTE0_FILTER_MASK, 0),
> +	BEACON_FILTER(WLAN_EID_HT_OPERATION, 0, 2, 0,
> +		      WCN36XX_FILTER_IE_HT_BYTE2_FILTER_MASK, 0),
> +	BEACON_FILTER(WLAN_EID_HT_OPERATION, 0, 5, 0,
> +		      WCN36XX_FILTER_IE_HT_BYTE5_FILTER_MASK, 0),
> +	BEACON_FILTER(WLAN_EID_PWR_CONSTRAINT, 0, 0, 0,
> +		      WCN36XX_FILTER_IE_PWR_CONSTRAINT_MASK, 0),
> +	BEACON_FILTER(WLAN_EID_OPMODE_NOTIF, 0, 0, 0,
> +		      WCN36XX_FILTER_IE_OPMODE_NOTIF_MASK, 0),
> +	BEACON_FILTER(WLAN_EID_VHT_OPERATION, 0, 0, 0,
> +		      WCN36XX_FILTER_IE_VHTOP_CHWIDTH_MASK, 0),
> +	BEACON_FILTER(WLAN_EID_RSN, 1, 0, 0,
> +		      WCN36XX_FILTER_IE_RSN_MASK, 0),
> +	BEACON_FILTER(WLAN_EID_VENDOR_SPECIFIC, 1, 0, 0,
> +		      WCN36XX_FILTER_IE_VENDOR_MASK, 0),
> +};

All static variables should be const so I changed this to const as well.

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