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| author | Johannes Berg | 2011-11-04 11:18:15 +0100 |
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| committer | John W. Linville | 2011-11-09 22:12:39 +0100 |
| commit | 7f6cf311a594c1e7ca8120367dd1d4c685aabff1 (patch) | |
| tree | 60308101541ba278a4dabd8a5884b5a0de3722eb /include/linux | |
| parent | nl80211: advertise device AP SME (diff) | |
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nl80211: add API to probe a client
When the AP SME in hostapd is used it wants to
probe the clients when they have been idle for
some time. Add explicit API to support this.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/nl80211.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/nl80211.h b/include/linux/nl80211.h index ff39e4b234d4..901a70d327d1 100644 --- a/include/linux/nl80211.h +++ b/include/linux/nl80211.h @@ -519,6 +519,14 @@ * If used as the command it must have an interface index and you can * only unsubscribe from the event by closing the socket. * + * @NL80211_CMD_PROBE_CLIENT: Probe an associated station on an AP interface + * by sending a null data frame to it and reporting when the frame is + * acknowleged. This is used to allow timing out inactive clients. Uses + * %NL80211_ATTR_IFINDEX and %NL80211_ATTR_MAC. The command returns a + * direct reply with an %NL80211_ATTR_COOKIE that is later used to match + * up the event with the request. The event includes the same data and + * has %NL80211_ATTR_ACK set if the frame was ACKed. + * * @NL80211_CMD_MAX: highest used command number * @__NL80211_CMD_AFTER_LAST: internal use */ @@ -650,6 +658,8 @@ enum nl80211_commands { NL80211_CMD_UNEXPECTED_FRAME, + NL80211_CMD_PROBE_CLIENT, + /* add new commands above here */ /* used to define NL80211_CMD_MAX below */ |