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On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Krishna Chaitanya
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am working on AMPDU stats for ath9k PCIe cards for use as sniffer in
> monitor mode.
> As the driver doesnt support the AMPDU stats for radiotap we have
> written the below snippet to add support for the same.
>
> Can someone answer the below queries?
>
> 1) How to populate the below fields?
> ampdu_reference
> ampdu_delimiter_crc
> 2) Whats the difference between the PRE and POST delimiter CRC Error counters?
> 3) how do we get the first subframe info? the status8 register (0x8)
> is not working.
>
> Once i get all the answers and after testing will submit this patch.
>
> Reference for radiotap ampdu fields:
> http://www.radiotap.org/defined-fields/A-MPDU%20status
>
> Attached the capture with the below code added.
>
> Code Snippet: recv.c: ath9k_rx_skb_preprocess (similar approach can
> be done for HTC based chips, htc_txrx.c: ath9k_rx_prepare)
>
> #define AR_RxFirstAggr 0x20000000
>
>
> if (rx_stats->rs_isaggr) {
> rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_AMPDU_DETAILS;
> rx_status->ampdu_reference=0x99999999; // Junk..
> rx_status->ampdu_delimiter_crc=0x10; //Junk
> rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_AMPDU_LAST_KNOWN;
> if (rx_stats->rs_isfirstaggr) { // Took from other
> chipset (ar9220) but not working for ar5008 chipset...always it shows
> zero
> printk("\n packet is first SF of the AMPDU\n");
> rx_status->flag |=RX_FLAG_AMPDU_IS_ZEROLEN; //
> Temp Hack to Verify
> }
> //printk("\n packet is aggr: Setting the AMPDU\n");
> if (!rx_stats->rs_moreaggr) {
> rx_status->flag |=RX_FLAG_AMPDU_IS_LAST;
> }
> if (rx_stats->pre_delim_crc_err ||
> rx_stats->post_delim_crc_err ) {
> printk("\n packet is aggr: Delim crc is True\n");
> rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_AMPDU_DELIM_CRC_ERROR;
> } else if(!rx_stats->pre_delim_crc_err &&
> !rx_stats->post_delim_crc_err ) {
> //printk("\n packet is aggr: Delim crc is True\n");
> rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_AMPDU_DELIM_CRC_KNOWN;
>
> }
>
> }
>
> Regards,
> Chaitanya T K.