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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | 2009-12-23 13:15:42 +0100 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-12-28 16:55:03 -0500 |
| commit | b8bc4b0aa9bfba755c64b11b8f60e6cfab25dc9d (patch) | |
| tree | 7f95b0c7d4f847e3c624b67899c7a62f6b73ce26 /net/mac80211/offchannel.c | |
| parent | 9588bbd5529461a3dacd435bf239c84c3508f569 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-b8bc4b0aa9bfba755c64b11b8f60e6cfab25dc9d.tar.gz lwn-b8bc4b0aa9bfba755c64b11b8f60e6cfab25dc9d.zip | |
mac80211: support remain-on-channel command
This implements the new remain-on-channel cfg80211
command in mac80211, extending the work interface.
Also change the work purge code to be able to clean
up events properly (pretending they timed out.)
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/offchannel.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/offchannel.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/offchannel.c b/net/mac80211/offchannel.c index 2cd880e444d1..a7bbfc40a648 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/offchannel.c +++ b/net/mac80211/offchannel.c @@ -106,9 +106,13 @@ void ieee80211_offchannel_stop_beaconing(struct ieee80211_local *local) /* * only handle non-STA interfaces here, STA interfaces * are handled in ieee80211_offchannel_stop_station(), - * e.g., from the background scan state machine + * e.g., from the background scan state machine. + * + * In addition, do not stop monitor interface to allow it to be + * used from user space controlled off-channel operations. */ - if (sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) + if (sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION && + sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR) netif_stop_queue(sdata->dev); } mutex_unlock(&local->iflist_mtx); |