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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2011-11-04 11:18:15 +0100 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2011-11-09 16:12:39 -0500 |
| commit | 7f6cf311a594c1e7ca8120367dd1d4c685aabff1 (patch) | |
| tree | 60308101541ba278a4dabd8a5884b5a0de3722eb /include/net/cfg80211.h | |
| parent | 562a74803f4881772ba2375ec4e5aa0ad90f4caa (diff) | |
| download | lwn-7f6cf311a594c1e7ca8120367dd1d4c685aabff1.tar.gz lwn-7f6cf311a594c1e7ca8120367dd1d4c685aabff1.zip | |
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/net/cfg80211.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/cfg80211.h | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h index 86d207da6cce..389e85e8c03d 100644 --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h @@ -1432,6 +1432,9 @@ struct cfg80211_gtk_rekey_data { * * @tdls_mgmt: Transmit a TDLS management frame. * @tdls_oper: Perform a high-level TDLS operation (e.g. TDLS link setup). + * + * @probe_client: probe an associated client, must return a cookie that it + * later passes to cfg80211_probe_status(). */ struct cfg80211_ops { int (*suspend)(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct cfg80211_wowlan *wow); @@ -1621,6 +1624,9 @@ struct cfg80211_ops { u16 status_code, const u8 *buf, size_t len); int (*tdls_oper)(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev, u8 *peer, enum nl80211_tdls_operation oper); + + int (*probe_client)(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev, + const u8 *peer, u64 *cookie); }; /* @@ -3216,6 +3222,17 @@ void cfg80211_pmksa_candidate_notify(struct net_device *dev, int index, bool cfg80211_rx_spurious_frame(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr, gfp_t gfp); +/** + * cfg80211_probe_status - notify userspace about probe status + * @dev: the device the probe was sent on + * @addr: the address of the peer + * @cookie: the cookie filled in @probe_client previously + * @acked: indicates whether probe was acked or not + * @gfp: allocation flags + */ +void cfg80211_probe_status(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr, + u64 cookie, bool acked, gfp_t gfp); + /* Logging, debugging and troubleshooting/diagnostic helpers. */ /* wiphy_printk helpers, similar to dev_printk */ |