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| author | Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> | 2013-04-18 15:49:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2013-04-22 15:48:00 +0200 |
| commit | 5de17984898c5758fc6ebe08eccea9f4b6548914 (patch) | |
| tree | 17aab780c025cfac0bd5a8b010b8ea9c138ff780 /include/net | |
| parent | a36473621c871df14bbf2106ab0721b475aac8e0 (diff) | |
| download | linux-5de17984898c5758fc6ebe08eccea9f4b6548914.tar.gz linux-5de17984898c5758fc6ebe08eccea9f4b6548914.tar.xz | |
cfg80211: introduce critical protocol indication from user-space
Some protocols need a more reliable connection to complete
successful in reasonable time. This patch adds a user-space
API to indicate the wireless driver that a critical protocol
is about to commence and when it is done, using nl80211 primitives
NL80211_CMD_CRIT_PROTOCOL_START and NL80211_CRIT_PROTOCOL_STOP.
There can be only on critical protocol session started per
registered cfg80211 device.
The driver can support this by implementing the cfg80211 callbacks
.crit_proto_start() and .crit_proto_stop(). Examples of protocols
that can benefit from this are DHCP, EAPOL, APIPA. Exactly how the
link can/should be made more reliable is up to the driver. Things
to consider are avoid scanning, no multi-channel operations, and
alter coexistence schemes.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/cfg80211.h | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h index dff96d8cafcd..26b5b692c22b 100644 --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h @@ -2002,6 +2002,12 @@ struct cfg80211_update_ft_ies_params { * @update_ft_ies: Provide updated Fast BSS Transition information to the * driver. If the SME is in the driver/firmware, this information can be * used in building Authentication and Reassociation Request frames. + * + * @crit_proto_start: Indicates a critical protocol needs more link reliability + * for a given duration (milliseconds). The protocol is provided so the + * driver can take the most appropriate actions. + * @crit_proto_stop: Indicates critical protocol no longer needs increased link + * reliability. This operation can not fail. */ struct cfg80211_ops { int (*suspend)(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct cfg80211_wowlan *wow); @@ -2231,6 +2237,12 @@ struct cfg80211_ops { struct cfg80211_chan_def *chandef); int (*update_ft_ies)(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev, struct cfg80211_update_ft_ies_params *ftie); + int (*crit_proto_start)(struct wiphy *wiphy, + struct wireless_dev *wdev, + enum nl80211_crit_proto_id protocol, + u16 duration); + void (*crit_proto_stop)(struct wiphy *wiphy, + struct wireless_dev *wdev); }; /* @@ -4137,6 +4149,17 @@ void cfg80211_report_wowlan_wakeup(struct wireless_dev *wdev, struct cfg80211_wowlan_wakeup *wakeup, gfp_t gfp); +/** + * cfg80211_crit_proto_stopped() - indicate critical protocol stopped by driver. + * + * @wdev: the wireless device for which critical protocol is stopped. + * + * This function can be called by the driver to indicate it has reverted + * operation back to normal. One reason could be that the duration given + * by .crit_proto_start() has expired. + */ +void cfg80211_crit_proto_stopped(struct wireless_dev *wdev, gfp_t gfp); + /* Logging, debugging and troubleshooting/diagnostic helpers. */ /* wiphy_printk helpers, similar to dev_printk */ |