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| author | Juuso Oikarinen | 2010-03-19 06:14:53 +0100 |
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| committer | John W. Linville | 2010-03-23 21:51:42 +0100 |
| commit | 1e4dcd012423b6a28f968a55886d2b27896a1586 (patch) | |
| tree | c2eadaf6a33175840b2f5d8fb7dd6af1d5be76ed /include/net/mac80211.h | |
| parent | drivers/net/wireless/ray_cs.c: Use iw_handler function prototypes (diff) | |
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mac80211: Add support for connection monitor in hardware
This patch is based on a RFC patch by Kalle Valo.
The wl1271 has a feature which handles the connection monitor logic
in hardware, basically sending periodically nullfunc frames and reporting
to the host if AP is lost, after attempting to recover by sending
probe-requests to the AP.
Add support to mac80211 by adding a new flag IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR
which prevents conn_mon_timer from triggering during idle periods, and
prevents sending probe-requests to the AP if beacon-loss is indicated by the
hardware.
Cc: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/mac80211.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/mac80211.h | 24 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h index 936bc410d061..d14226f29ffc 100644 --- a/include/net/mac80211.h +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h @@ -954,6 +954,11 @@ enum ieee80211_tkip_key_type { * Hardware can provide ack status reports of Tx frames to * the stack. * + * @IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR: + * The hardware performs its own connection monitoring, including + * periodic keep-alives to the AP and probing the AP on beacon loss. + * When this flag is set, signaling beacon-loss will cause an immediate + * change to disassociated state. */ enum ieee80211_hw_flags { IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL = 1<<0, @@ -975,6 +980,7 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags { IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_SMPS = 1<<16, IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_UAPSD = 1<<17, IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS = 1<<18, + IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR = 1<<19, }; /** @@ -2364,12 +2370,26 @@ void ieee80211_sta_block_awake(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, * * @vif: &struct ieee80211_vif pointer from the add_interface callback. * - * When beacon filtering is enabled with IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTERING and - * IEEE80211_CONF_PS is set, the driver needs to inform whenever the + * When beacon filtering is enabled with %IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTERING and + * %IEEE80211_CONF_PS is set, the driver needs to inform whenever the * hardware is not receiving beacons with this function. */ void ieee80211_beacon_loss(struct ieee80211_vif *vif); +/** + * ieee80211_connection_loss - inform hardware has lost connection to the AP + * + * @vif: &struct ieee80211_vif pointer from the add_interface callback. + * + * When beacon filtering is enabled with %IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTERING, and + * %IEEE80211_CONF_PS and %IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR are set, the driver + * needs to inform if the connection to the AP has been lost. + * + * This function will cause immediate change to disassociated state, + * without connection recovery attempts. + */ +void ieee80211_connection_loss(struct ieee80211_vif *vif); + /* Rate control API */ /** |