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| author |   Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com> | 2012-03-02 15:50:02 +0530 |
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| committer |   John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2012-03-05 15:38:34 -0500 |
| commit | 1b658f118b11de3c4052ed8cbdd5803cd1fa5670 (patch) | |
| tree | 162160c05d29fc99b18d1914ffe2d614f2c9af6a /include/linux/nl80211.h | |
| parent | mac80211: fix the support of setting non-forwarding entity in Mesh (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-1b658f118b11de3c4052ed8cbdd5803cd1fa5670.tar.xz linux-dev-1b658f118b11de3c4052ed8cbdd5803cd1fa5670.zip | |
cfg80211: Add an attribute to set inactivity timeout in AP mode
This patch adds an attribute, NL80211_ATTR_INACTIVITY_TIMEOUT,
to set the inactivity timeout which can be used to remove the
station in AP mode. This can be passed in NL80211_CMD_START_AP
and used by the drivers which have AP MLME in firmware but
don't support get_station() properly. To disable inactivity
timer in userspace, wpa_s for example, there is a new flag,
NL80211_FEATURE_INACTIVITY_TIMER, in nl80211_feature_flags
through which drivers can register their capability to use
the inactivity timeout to free the stations.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/nl80211.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/nl80211.h | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/nl80211.h b/include/linux/nl80211.h index 38fda5ee57f5..9f46c62b1eee 100644 --- a/include/linux/nl80211.h +++ b/include/linux/nl80211.h @@ -168,8 +168,8 @@ * %NL80211_ATTR_DTIM_PERIOD, %NL80211_ATTR_SSID, * %NL80211_ATTR_HIDDEN_SSID, %NL80211_ATTR_CIPHERS_PAIRWISE, * %NL80211_ATTR_CIPHER_GROUP, %NL80211_ATTR_WPA_VERSIONS, - * %NL80211_ATTR_AKM_SUITES, %NL80211_ATTR_PRIVACY and - * %NL80211_ATTR_AUTH_TYPE. + * %NL80211_ATTR_AKM_SUITES, %NL80211_ATTR_PRIVACY, + * %NL80211_ATTR_AUTH_TYPE and %NL80211_ATTR_INACTIVITY_TIMEOUT. * @NL80211_CMD_NEW_BEACON: old alias for %NL80211_CMD_START_AP * @NL80211_CMD_STOP_AP: Stop AP operation on the given interface * @NL80211_CMD_DEL_BEACON: old alias for %NL80211_CMD_STOP_AP @@ -1197,6 +1197,12 @@ enum nl80211_commands { * @NL80211_ATTR_NOACK_MAP: This u16 bitmap contains the No Ack Policy of * up to 16 TIDs. * + * @NL80211_ATTR_INACTIVITY_TIMEOUT: timeout value in seconds, this can be + * used by the drivers which has MLME in firmware and does not have support + * to report per station tx/rx activity to free up the staion entry from + * the list. This needs to be used when the driver advertises the + * capability to timeout the stations. + * * @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined * @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use */ @@ -1442,6 +1448,8 @@ enum nl80211_attrs { NL80211_ATTR_NOACK_MAP, + NL80211_ATTR_INACTIVITY_TIMEOUT, + /* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */ __NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST, @@ -2809,10 +2817,13 @@ enum nl80211_ap_sme_features { * TX status to the socket error queue when requested with the * socket option. * @NL80211_FEATURE_HT_IBSS: This driver supports IBSS with HT datarates. + * @NL80211_FEATURE_INACTIVITY_TIMER: This driver takes care of freeing up + * the connected inactive stations in AP mode. */ enum nl80211_feature_flags { NL80211_FEATURE_SK_TX_STATUS = 1 << 0, NL80211_FEATURE_HT_IBSS = 1 << 1, + NL80211_FEATURE_INACTIVITY_TIMER = 1 << 2, }; /** |