ieee802154: add TX power control to wpan_phy

Replace the current u8 transmit_power in wpan_phy with s8 transmit_power.
The u8 field contained the actual tx power and a tolerance field,
which no physical radio every used. Adjust sysfs entries to keep
compatibility with userspace, give tolerances of +-1dB statically there.

This patch only adds support for this in the at86rf230 driver and the
RF212 chip. Configuration calculation for RF212 is also somewhat basic,
but does the job - the RF212 datasheet gives a large table with
suggested values for combinations of TX power and page/channel, if this
does not work well, we might have to copy the whole table.

Signed-off-by: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Phoebe Buckheister
2014-02-17 11:34:08 +01:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 5b520bbb53
commit 9b2777d608
10 changed files with 102 additions and 6 deletions

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@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ enum {
IEEE802154_ATTR_PHY_NAME,
IEEE802154_ATTR_DEV_TYPE,
IEEE802154_ATTR_TXPOWER,
__IEEE802154_ATTR_MAX,
};
@@ -122,6 +124,8 @@ enum {
IEEE802154_ADD_IFACE,
IEEE802154_DEL_IFACE,
IEEE802154_SET_PHYPARAMS,
__IEEE802154_CMD_MAX,
};