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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 /net/wireless/mlme.c | |
| parent | mac80211: minstrel_ht: initialize rates selection (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-5de17984898c5758fc6ebe08eccea9f4b6548914.tar.xz linux-dev-5de17984898c5758fc6ebe08eccea9f4b6548914.zip | |
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 'net/wireless/mlme.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/mlme.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/mlme.c b/net/wireless/mlme.c index 390198bf4b36..0c7b7dd855f6 100644 --- a/net/wireless/mlme.c +++ b/net/wireless/mlme.c @@ -648,6 +648,11 @@ void cfg80211_mlme_unregister_socket(struct wireless_dev *wdev, u32 nlportid) spin_unlock_bh(&wdev->mgmt_registrations_lock); + if (nlportid && rdev->crit_proto_nlportid == nlportid) { + rdev->crit_proto_nlportid = 0; + rdev_crit_proto_stop(rdev, wdev); + } + if (nlportid == wdev->ap_unexpected_nlportid) wdev->ap_unexpected_nlportid = 0; } |