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| author | Pandiyarajan Pitchaimuthu <c_ppitch@qca.qualcomm.com> | 2012-09-18 16:50:49 +0530 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2012-09-18 19:54:06 +0200 |
| commit | ed44a951c72ab409f932b1c15914488308e86da2 (patch) | |
| tree | 74ee8c115663e2d48d610401dd7f95a8bcd05898 /include/net | |
| parent | 30d08a46ea2a4e44bc1a1f15f243af29c9150282 (diff) | |
| download | linux-ed44a951c72ab409f932b1c15914488308e86da2.tar.gz linux-ed44a951c72ab409f932b1c15914488308e86da2.tar.xz | |
cfg80211/nl80211: Notify connection request failure in AP mode
In AP mode, when a station requests connection to an AP and if the
request is failed for particular reason, userspace is notified about the
failure through NL80211_CMD_CONN_FAILED command. Reason for the failure
is sent through the attribute NL80211_ATTR_CONN_FAILED_REASON.
Signed-off-by: Pandiyarajan Pitchaimuthu <c_ppitch@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/cfg80211.h | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h index 1a3fe9ae4c49..80051ffc2755 100644 --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h @@ -3361,6 +3361,25 @@ void cfg80211_new_sta(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *mac_addr, void cfg80211_del_sta(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *mac_addr, gfp_t gfp); /** + * cfg80211_conn_failed - connection request failed notification + * + * @dev: the netdev + * @mac_addr: the station's address + * @reason: the reason for connection failure + * @gfp: allocation flags + * + * Whenever a station tries to connect to an AP and if the station + * could not connect to the AP as the AP has rejected the connection + * for some reasons, this function is called. + * + * The reason for connection failure can be any of the value from + * nl80211_connect_failed_reason enum + */ +void cfg80211_conn_failed(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *mac_addr, + enum nl80211_connect_failed_reason reason, + gfp_t gfp); + +/** * cfg80211_rx_mgmt - notification of received, unprocessed management frame * @wdev: wireless device receiving the frame * @freq: Frequency on which the frame was received in MHz |