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authorLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>2009-04-02 14:08:09 -0400
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-04-22 16:54:40 -0400
commit6bad8766620a3c8b64afa981502fdb543e3cfd6c (patch)
tree7524ea7826a443d920062e48fe081e82b6fd7385 /net/wireless/nl80211.c
parentcfg80211: add netlink channel put helper (diff)
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cfg80211: send regulatory beacon hint events to userspace
This informs userspace when a change has occured on a world roaming wiphy's channel which has lifted some restrictions due to a regulatory beacon hint. Because this is now sent to userspace through the regulatory multicast group we remove the debug prints we used to use as they are no longer necessary. Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless/nl80211.c')
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1 files changed, 54 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 7285bdc4e598..85b5aa3c76f8 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -3491,6 +3491,60 @@ void nl80211_michael_mic_failure(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
nlmsg_free(msg);
}
+void nl80211_send_beacon_hint_event(struct wiphy *wiphy,
+ struct ieee80211_channel *channel_before,
+ struct ieee80211_channel *channel_after)
+{
+ struct sk_buff *msg;
+ void *hdr;
+ struct nlattr *nl_freq;
+
+ msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_GOODSIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (!msg)
+ return;
+
+ hdr = nl80211hdr_put(msg, 0, 0, 0, NL80211_CMD_REG_BEACON_HINT);
+ if (!hdr) {
+ nlmsg_free(msg);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Since we are applying the beacon hint to a wiphy we know its
+ * wiphy_idx is valid
+ */
+ NLA_PUT_U32(msg, NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY, get_wiphy_idx(wiphy));
+
+ /* Before */
+ nl_freq = nla_nest_start(msg, NL80211_ATTR_FREQ_BEFORE);
+ if (!nl_freq)
+ goto nla_put_failure;
+ if (nl80211_msg_put_channel(msg, channel_before))
+ goto nla_put_failure;
+ nla_nest_end(msg, nl_freq);
+
+ /* After */
+ nl_freq = nla_nest_start(msg, NL80211_ATTR_FREQ_AFTER);
+ if (!nl_freq)
+ goto nla_put_failure;
+ if (nl80211_msg_put_channel(msg, channel_after))
+ goto nla_put_failure;
+ nla_nest_end(msg, nl_freq);
+
+ if (genlmsg_end(msg, hdr) < 0) {
+ nlmsg_free(msg);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ genlmsg_multicast(msg, 0, nl80211_regulatory_mcgrp.id, GFP_ATOMIC);
+
+ return;
+
+nla_put_failure:
+ genlmsg_cancel(msg, hdr);
+ nlmsg_free(msg);
+}
+
/* initialisation/exit functions */
int nl80211_init(void)