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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)
commit12ef7851c535c6561e906b907c94b1647336cc63
tree8e8898fd6b41a13a24098b762d2f2be8a50869c0
parent1a0d1824a5b5f8ea134a2f4608db33edf3a773cc
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