nl80211: Add per peer statistics to compute FCS error rate
Add support for drivers to report the total number of MPDUs received and the number of MPDUs received with an FCS error from a specific peer. These counters will be incremented only when the TA of the frame matches the MAC address of the peer irrespective of FCS error. It should be noted that the TA field in the frame might be corrupted when there is an FCS error and TA matching logic would fail in such cases. Hence, FCS error counter might not be fully accurate, but it can provide help in detecting bad RX links in significant number of cases. This FCS error counter without full accuracy can be used, e.g., to trigger a kick-out of a connected client with a bad link in AP mode to force such a client to roam to another AP. Signed-off-by:Jouni Malinen <jouni@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Git-commit: 0d4e14a32dcab9c4bd559d02874120fbb86b1322 Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git CRs-Fixed: 2336798 Change-Id: I081304f25d50cd875b9d9867819ae3464627de79 Signed-off-by:
Ankita Bajaj <bankita@codeaurora.org>
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