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* [PATCH ath-next 0/2] wifi: ath12k: use real noise floor value
@ 2025-05-28 11:23 Aditya Kumar Singh
  2025-05-28 11:24 ` [PATCH ath-next 1/2] wifi: ath12k: handle WMI event for real noise floor calculation Aditya Kumar Singh
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From: Aditya Kumar Singh @ 2025-05-28 11:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jeff Johnson
  Cc: linux-wireless, ath12k, linux-kernel, Raj Kumar Bhagat,
	Aditya Kumar Singh

At present, the ATH12K_DEFAULT_NOISE_FLOOR (-95) is used to calculate RSSI
value, providing an estimated noise floor value. Consequently, the RSSI
value is also approximate. This works but however, using actual noise floor
value will enable the reporting of the true RSSI value.

The firmware possesses the necessary data to determine the actual noise
floor. This data is provided to the host via the WMI event
WMI_PDEV_RSSI_DBM_CONVERSION_PARAMS_INFO_EVENTID, which includes the
runtime parameters needed for calculating the real noise floor in dBm. This
event is triggered by the firmware during channel changes, temperature
offset adjustments, and hardware chainmask modifications.

Add support to handle and parse this WMI event. Use the received values to
calculate and store the noise floor value and use at the required places.

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Raj Kumar Bhagat (2):
      wifi: ath12k: handle WMI event for real noise floor calculation
      wifi: ath12k: use real noise floor instead of default value

 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.h   |  17 +++
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/dp_mon.c |   7 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/dp_tx.c  |  20 ++-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c    |  14 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wmi.c    | 233 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wmi.h    |  42 ++++++
 6 files changed, 324 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 3d933084a072fd5fb5da54c06a017abc0412c86f
change-id: 20250513-support_real_noise_floor-205986936cd3


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