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| author |   Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de> | 2013-07-11 16:09:05 +0200 |
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| committer |   Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2013-08-01 18:30:28 +0200 |
| commit | 16ef1fe272332b2f7fd99236017b891db48d9cd6 (patch) | |
| tree | 95b7a750ade214349282f1858ac44640890fce9c /include/uapi | |
| parent | mac80211: add debugfs for driver-buffered TID bitmap (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-16ef1fe272332b2f7fd99236017b891db48d9cd6.tar.xz linux-dev-16ef1fe272332b2f7fd99236017b891db48d9cd6.zip | |
nl80211/cfg80211: add channel switch command
To allow channel switch announcements within beacons, add
the channel switch command to nl80211/cfg80211. This is
implementation is intended for AP and (later) IBSS mode.
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 30 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h index eb68735b3318..1f42bc3dcb9c 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h @@ -676,6 +676,16 @@ * @NL80211_CMD_GET_COALESCE: Get currently supported coalesce rules. * @NL80211_CMD_SET_COALESCE: Configure coalesce rules or clear existing rules. * + * @NL80211_CMD_CHANNEL_SWITCH: Perform a channel switch by announcing the + * the new channel information (Channel Switch Announcement - CSA) + * in the beacon for some time (as defined in the + * %NL80211_ATTR_CH_SWITCH_COUNT parameter) and then change to the + * new channel. Userspace provides the new channel information (using + * %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ and the attributes determining channel + * width). %NL80211_ATTR_CH_SWITCH_BLOCK_TX may be supplied to inform + * other station that transmission must be blocked until the channel + * switch is complete. + * * @NL80211_CMD_MAX: highest used command number * @__NL80211_CMD_AFTER_LAST: internal use */ @@ -841,6 +851,8 @@ enum nl80211_commands { NL80211_CMD_GET_COALESCE, NL80211_CMD_SET_COALESCE, + NL80211_CMD_CHANNEL_SWITCH, + /* add new commands above here */ /* used to define NL80211_CMD_MAX below */ @@ -1469,6 +1481,18 @@ enum nl80211_commands { * * @NL80211_ATTR_COALESCE_RULE: Coalesce rule information. * + * @NL80211_ATTR_CH_SWITCH_COUNT: u32 attribute specifying the number of TBTT's + * until the channel switch event. + * @NL80211_ATTR_CH_SWITCH_BLOCK_TX: flag attribute specifying that transmission + * must be blocked on the current channel (before the channel switch + * operation). + * @NL80211_ATTR_CSA_IES: Nested set of attributes containing the IE information + * for the time while performing a channel switch. + * @NL80211_ATTR_CSA_C_OFF_BEACON: Offset of the channel switch counter + * field in the beacons tail (%NL80211_ATTR_BEACON_TAIL). + * @NL80211_ATTR_CSA_C_OFF_PRESP: Offset of the channel switch counter + * field in the probe response (%NL80211_ATTR_PROBE_RESP). + * * @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined * @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use */ @@ -1771,6 +1795,12 @@ enum nl80211_attrs { NL80211_ATTR_COALESCE_RULE, + NL80211_ATTR_CH_SWITCH_COUNT, + NL80211_ATTR_CH_SWITCH_BLOCK_TX, + NL80211_ATTR_CSA_IES, + NL80211_ATTR_CSA_C_OFF_BEACON, + NL80211_ATTR_CSA_C_OFF_PRESP, + /* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */ __NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST, |