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| author |   Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2022-05-31 19:48:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2022-06-20 12:55:57 +0200 |
| commit | d648c23024bd01333acd2fd5e34bcde0ffb66b16 (patch) | |
| tree | dbe1f303aa58f1dd4beb07de18ed57fea4f1ee8c /include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | |
| parent | wifi: mac80211: ignore IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_SMPS in chanctx mode (diff) | |
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wifi: nl80211: support MLO in auth/assoc
For authentication, we need the BSS, the link_id and the AP
MLD address to create the link and station, (for now) the
driver assigns a link address and sends the frame, the MLD
address needs to be the address of the interface.
For association, pass the list of BSSes that were selected
for the MLO connection, along with extra per-STA profile
elements, the AP MLD address and the link ID on which the
association request should be sent.
Note that for now we don't have a proper way to pass the link
address(es) and so the driver/mac80211 will select one, but
depending on how that selection works it means that assoc w/o
auth data still being around (mac80211 implementation detail)
the association won't necessarily work - so this will need to
be extended in the future to sort out the link addressing.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h index a9a2c9fef295..60ad9a9f153d 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h @@ -2687,6 +2687,8 @@ enum nl80211_commands { * various commands that need a link ID to operate. * @NL80211_ATTR_MLO_LINKS: A nested array of links, each containing some * per-link information and a link ID. + * @NL80211_ATTR_MLD_ADDR: An MLD address, used with various commands such as + * authenticate/associate. * * @NUM_NL80211_ATTR: total number of nl80211_attrs available * @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined @@ -3204,6 +3206,7 @@ enum nl80211_attrs { NL80211_ATTR_MLO_LINKS, NL80211_ATTR_MLO_LINK_ID, + NL80211_ATTR_MLD_ADDR, /* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */ |