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authorJuuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>2010-03-19 07:14:53 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-03-23 16:51:42 -0400
commit1e4dcd012423b6a28f968a55886d2b27896a1586 (patch)
treec2eadaf6a33175840b2f5d8fb7dd6af1d5be76ed /include/net
parent43ead78ac48b75aaf47de96fcf10cbf5962f32a6 (diff)
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')
-rw-r--r--include/net/mac80211.h24
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 */
/**