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Commit 4486ea98 authored by Bala Shanmugam's avatar Bala Shanmugam Committed by John W. Linville
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cfg80211: Add background scan period attribute. 



Receive background scan period as part of connect
command and pass the same to the driver.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBala Shanmugam <bkamatch@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent bff2ec2b

include/linux/nl80211.h

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@@ -369,6 +369,11 @@ 
 *	%NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ, %NL80211_ATTR_CONTROL_PORT,

 *	%NL80211_ATTR_CONTROL_PORT_ETHERTYPE and

 *	%NL80211_ATTR_CONTROL_PORT_NO_ENCRYPT.

 *	Background scan period can optionally be

 *	specified in %NL80211_ATTR_BG_SCAN_PERIOD,

 *	if not specified default background scan configuration

 *	in driver is used and if period value is 0, bg scan will be disabled.

 *	This attribute is ignored if driver does not support roam scan.

 *	It is also sent as an event, with the BSSID and response IEs when the

 *	connection is established or failed to be established. This can be

 *	determined by the STATUS_CODE attribute.
@@ -1207,6 +1212,9 @@ enum nl80211_commands { 
 *	this attribute is (depending on the driver capabilities) added to

 *	received frames indicated with %NL80211_CMD_FRAME.

 *

 * @NL80211_ATTR_BG_SCAN_PERIOD: Background scan period in seconds

 *      or 0 to disable background scan.

 *

 * @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined

 * @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use

 */
@@ -1456,6 +1464,8 @@ enum nl80211_attrs { 


	NL80211_ATTR_RX_SIGNAL_DBM,



	NL80211_ATTR_BG_SCAN_PERIOD,



	/* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */



	__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,

include/net/cfg80211.h

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@@ -1203,6 +1203,8 @@ struct cfg80211_ibss_params { 
 * @key_idx: index of WEP key for shared key authentication

 * @key: WEP key for shared key authentication

 * @flags:  See &enum cfg80211_assoc_req_flags

 * @bg_scan_period:  Background scan period in seconds

 *   or -1 to indicate that default value is to be used.

 * @ht_capa:  HT Capabilities over-rides.  Values set in ht_capa_mask

 *   will be used in ht_capa.  Un-supported values will be ignored.

 * @ht_capa_mask:  The bits of ht_capa which are to be used.
@@ -1220,6 +1222,7 @@ struct cfg80211_connect_params { 
	const u8 *key;

	u8 key_len, key_idx;

	u32 flags;

	int bg_scan_period;

	struct ieee80211_ht_cap ht_capa;

	struct ieee80211_ht_cap ht_capa_mask;

};

net/wireless/nl80211.c

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@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NL80211_ATTR_MAX+1] = { 
	},

	[NL80211_ATTR_NOACK_MAP] = { .type = NLA_U16 },

	[NL80211_ATTR_INACTIVITY_TIMEOUT] = { .type = NLA_U16 },

	[NL80211_ATTR_BG_SCAN_PERIOD] = { .type = NLA_U16 },

};



/* policy for the key attributes */
@@ -5116,6 +5117,13 @@ static int nl80211_connect(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) 


	wiphy = &rdev->wiphy;



	connect.bg_scan_period = -1;

	if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_BG_SCAN_PERIOD] &&

		(wiphy->flags & WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_FW_ROAM)) {

		connect.bg_scan_period =

			nla_get_u16(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_BG_SCAN_PERIOD]);

	}



	if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MAC])

		connect.bssid = nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MAC]);

	connect.ssid = nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_SSID]);

net/wireless/wext-sme.c

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@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ int cfg80211_mgd_wext_connect(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev, 
	wdev->wext.connect.ie = wdev->wext.ie;

	wdev->wext.connect.ie_len = wdev->wext.ie_len;



	/* Use default background scan period */

	wdev->wext.connect.bg_scan_period = -1;



	if (wdev->wext.keys) {

		wdev->wext.keys->def = wdev->wext.default_key;

		wdev->wext.keys->defmgmt = wdev->wext.default_mgmt_key;