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authorMohamed Abbas <mabbas@linux.intel.com>2008-04-04 16:59:58 -0700
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2008-04-08 16:44:43 -0400
commit84363e6e07f17f8cc580065260907ee3f0520485 (patch)
treef0113ebc756892a55543d8c6511291cad7ec6644 /include/net/mac80211.h
parent380a942b9177dcae1429fdd0f3639f92d9ab139d (diff)
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mac80211: notify mac from low level driver (iwlwifi)
Add new API to MAC80211 to allow low level driver to notify MAC with driver status. Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mabbas@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 999f970da6ba..079e7bd86c90 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -74,6 +74,14 @@
*/
/**
+ * enum ieee80211_notification_type - Low level driver notification
+ * @IEEE80211_NOTIFY_RE_ASSOC: start the re-association sequence
+ */
+enum ieee80211_notification_types {
+ IEEE80211_NOTIFY_RE_ASSOC,
+};
+
+/**
* struct ieee80211_ht_bss_info - describing BSS's HT characteristics
*
* This structure describes most essential parameters needed
@@ -1678,4 +1686,15 @@ void ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u8 *ra, u8 tid);
void ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb_irqsafe(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, const u8 *ra,
u16 tid);
+/**
+ * ieee80211_notify_mac - low level driver notification
+ * @hw: pointer as obtained from ieee80211_alloc_hw().
+ * @notification_types: enum ieee80211_notification_types
+ *
+ * This function must be called by low level driver to inform mac80211 of
+ * low level driver status change or force mac80211 to re-assoc for low
+ * level driver internal error that require re-assoc.
+ */
+void ieee80211_notify_mac(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
+ enum ieee80211_notification_types notif_type);
#endif /* MAC80211_H */