add wireless measurement probe infrastructure, developed at Fraunhofer FOKUS
[openwrt/staging/florian.git] / package / wprobe / src / user / wprobe.h
1 /*
2 * wprobe.h: Wireless probe user space library
3 * Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
4 *
5 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
7 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
8 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
9 *
10 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 * GNU General Public License for more details.
14 */
15
16 #ifndef __WPROBE_USER_H
17 #define __WPROBE_USER_H
18 #include <inttypes.h>
19 #include <stdint.h>
20 #include <stdbool.h>
21 #include "list.h"
22
23 /**
24 * struct wprobe_value: data structure for attribute values
25 * @STRING: string value (currently unsupported)
26 * @U8: unsigned 8-bit integer value
27 * @U16: unsigned 16-bit integer value
28 * @U32: unsigned 32-bit integer value
29 * @U64: unsigned 64-bit integer value
30 * @S8: signed 8-bit integer value
31 * @S16: signed 16-bit integer value
32 * @S32: signed 32-bit integer value
33 * @S64: signed 64-bit integer value
34 *
35 * @n: number of sample values
36 * @avg: average value
37 * @stdev: standard deviation
38 * @s: sum of all sample values (internal use)
39 * @ss: sum of all sample values squared (internal use)
40 */
41 struct wprobe_value {
42 /* attribute value */
43 union {
44 const char *STRING;
45 uint8_t U8;
46 uint16_t U16;
47 uint32_t U32;
48 uint64_t U64;
49 int8_t S8;
50 int16_t S16;
51 int32_t S32;
52 int64_t S64;
53 };
54 /* statistics */
55 int64_t s, ss;
56 float avg, stdev;
57 unsigned int n;
58 };
59
60 /**
61 * struct wprobe_attribute: data structures for attribute descriptions
62 * @list: linked list data structure for a list of attributes
63 * @id: attribute id
64 * @type: netlink type for the attribute (see kernel api documentation)
65 * @flags: attribute flags (see kernel api documentation)
66 * @val: cached version of the last netlink query, will be overwritten on each request
67 * @name: attribute name
68 */
69 struct wprobe_attribute {
70 struct list_head list;
71 int id;
72 int type;
73 uint32_t flags;
74 struct wprobe_value val;
75 char name[];
76 };
77
78 /**
79 * struct wprobe_link: data structure for the link description
80 * @list: linked list data structure for a list of links
81 * @flags: link flags (see kernel api documentation)
82 * @addr: mac address of the remote link partner
83 */
84 struct wprobe_link {
85 struct list_head list;
86 uint32_t flags;
87 unsigned char addr[6];
88 };
89
90 /**
91 * wprobe_init: initialize internal data structures and connect to the wprobe netlink api
92 */
93 extern int wprobe_init(void);
94
95 /**
96 * wprobe_free: free all internally allocated data structures
97 */
98 extern void wprobe_free(void);
99
100 /**
101 * wprobe_update_links: get a list of all link partners
102 * @ifname: name of the wprobe interface
103 * @list: linked list for storing link descriptions
104 *
105 * when wprobe_update_links is called multiple times, the linked list
106 * is updated with new link partners, old entries are automatically expired
107 */
108 extern int wprobe_update_links(const char *ifname, struct list_head *list);
109
110 /**
111 * wprobe_measure: start a measurement request for all global attributes
112 * @ifname: name of the wprobe interface
113 *
114 * not all attributes are automatically filled with data, since for some
115 * it may be desirable to control the sampling interval from user space
116 * you can use this function to do that.
117 */
118 extern void wprobe_measure(const char *ifname);
119
120 /**
121 * wprobe_dump_attributes: create a linked list of available attributes
122 * @ifname: name of the wprobe interface
123 * @link: false: get the list of global attributes; true: get the list of per-link attributes
124 * @list: linked list to store the attributes in
125 * @addr: buffer to store the interface's mac address in (optional)
126 *
127 * attributes must be freed by the caller
128 */
129 extern int wprobe_dump_attributes(const char *ifname, bool link, struct list_head *list, char *addr);
130
131 /**
132 * wprobe_request_data: request new sampling values for the given list of attributes
133 * @ifname: name of the wprobe interface
134 * @attrs: attribute list
135 * @addr: (optional) mac address of the link partner
136 * @scale: scale down values by a factor (scale < 0: reset statistics entirely)
137 *
138 * if addr is unset, attrs must point to the list of global attributes,
139 * if addr is set, attrs must point to the list of per-link attributes
140 */
141 extern int wprobe_request_data(const char *ifname, struct list_head *attrs, const unsigned char *addr, int scale);
142
143 #endif