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| author |   Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> | 2009-03-22 21:57:28 +0200 |
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| committer |   John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-03-27 20:13:13 -0400 |
| commit | a08c1c1ac0c26229ca1ca45d554b209a56edc8be (patch) | |
| tree | b49e2968fae2612ced8a090a659309b1300fe7cb /include | |
| parent | mac80211: disable power save when scanning (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-a08c1c1ac0c26229ca1ca45d554b209a56edc8be.tar.xz linux-dev-a08c1c1ac0c26229ca1ca45d554b209a56edc8be.zip | |
cfg80211: add feature to hold bss
In beacon filtering there needs to be a way to not expire the BSS even
when no beacons are received. Add an interface to cfg80211 to hold
BSS and make sure that it's not expired.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/cfg80211.h | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h index dca4a6b0461b..5389afdc1297 100644 --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h @@ -539,6 +539,7 @@ enum cfg80211_signal_type { * is no guarantee that these are well-formed!) * @len_information_elements: total length of the information elements * @signal: signal strength value (type depends on the wiphy's signal_type) + * @hold: BSS should not expire * @free_priv: function pointer to free private data * @priv: private area for driver use, has at least wiphy->bss_priv_size bytes */ @@ -940,4 +941,21 @@ void cfg80211_send_rx_deauth(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *buf, void cfg80211_send_rx_disassoc(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *buf, size_t len); +/** + * cfg80211_hold_bss - exclude bss from expiration + * @bss: bss which should not expire + * + * In a case when the BSS is not updated but it shouldn't expire this + * function can be used to mark the BSS to be excluded from expiration. + */ +void cfg80211_hold_bss(struct cfg80211_bss *bss); + +/** + * cfg80211_unhold_bss - remove expiration exception from the BSS + * @bss: bss which can expire again + * + * This function marks the BSS to be expirable again. + */ +void cfg80211_unhold_bss(struct cfg80211_bss *bss); + #endif /* __NET_CFG80211_H */ |