From 5de17984898c5758fc6ebe08eccea9f4b6548914 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arend van Spriel Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:49:00 +0200 Subject: 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 Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/uapi') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h index 79da8710448e..d1e48b5e348f 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h @@ -639,6 +639,13 @@ * with the relevant Information Elements. This event is used to report * received FT IEs (MDIE, FTIE, RSN IE, TIE, RICIE). * + * @NL80211_CMD_CRIT_PROTOCOL_START: Indicates user-space will start running + * a critical protocol that needs more reliability in the connection to + * complete. + * + * @NL80211_CMD_CRIT_PROTOCOL_STOP: Indicates the connection reliability can + * return back to normal. + * * @NL80211_CMD_MAX: highest used command number * @__NL80211_CMD_AFTER_LAST: internal use */ @@ -798,6 +805,9 @@ enum nl80211_commands { NL80211_CMD_UPDATE_FT_IES, NL80211_CMD_FT_EVENT, + NL80211_CMD_CRIT_PROTOCOL_START, + NL80211_CMD_CRIT_PROTOCOL_STOP, + /* add new commands above here */ /* used to define NL80211_CMD_MAX below */ @@ -1414,6 +1424,11 @@ enum nl80211_commands { * @NL80211_ATTR_IE_RIC: Resource Information Container Information * Element * + * @NL80211_ATTR_CRIT_PROT_ID: critical protocol identifier requiring increased + * reliability, see &enum nl80211_crit_proto_id (u16). + * @NL80211_ATTR_MAX_CRIT_PROT_DURATION: duration in milliseconds in which + * the connection should have increased reliability (u16). + * * @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined * @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use */ @@ -1709,6 +1724,9 @@ enum nl80211_attrs { NL80211_ATTR_MDID, NL80211_ATTR_IE_RIC, + NL80211_ATTR_CRIT_PROT_ID, + NL80211_ATTR_MAX_CRIT_PROT_DURATION, + /* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */ __NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST, @@ -3682,4 +3700,25 @@ enum nl80211_protocol_features { NL80211_PROTOCOL_FEATURE_SPLIT_WIPHY_DUMP = 1 << 0, }; +/** + * enum nl80211_crit_proto_id - nl80211 critical protocol identifiers + * + * @NL80211_CRIT_PROTO_UNSPEC: protocol unspecified. + * @NL80211_CRIT_PROTO_DHCP: BOOTP or DHCPv6 protocol. + * @NL80211_CRIT_PROTO_EAPOL: EAPOL protocol. + * @NL80211_CRIT_PROTO_APIPA: APIPA protocol. + * @NUM_NL80211_CRIT_PROTO: must be kept last. + */ +enum nl80211_crit_proto_id { + NL80211_CRIT_PROTO_UNSPEC, + NL80211_CRIT_PROTO_DHCP, + NL80211_CRIT_PROTO_EAPOL, + NL80211_CRIT_PROTO_APIPA, + /* add other protocols before this one */ + NUM_NL80211_CRIT_PROTO +}; + +/* maximum duration for critical protocol measures */ +#define NL80211_CRIT_PROTO_MAX_DURATION 5000 /* msec */ + #endif /* __LINUX_NL80211_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522