mac80211: Add capability to enable/disable beaconing
This patch adds a flag to notify drivers to start and stop
beaconing when needed, for example, during a scan run. Based
on Sujith's first patch to do the same, but now disables
beaconing for all virtual interfaces while scanning, has a
separate change flag and tracks user-space requests.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 634c08d..35643c5 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -646,10 +646,12 @@
* @IEEE80211_IFCC_BSSID: The BSSID changed.
* @IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON: The beacon for this interface changed
* (currently AP and MESH only), use ieee80211_beacon_get().
+ * @IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON_ENABLED: The enable_beacon value changed.
*/
enum ieee80211_if_conf_change {
- IEEE80211_IFCC_BSSID = BIT(0),
- IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON = BIT(1),
+ IEEE80211_IFCC_BSSID = BIT(0),
+ IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON = BIT(1),
+ IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON_ENABLED = BIT(2),
};
/**
@@ -657,6 +659,8 @@
*
* @changed: parameters that have changed, see &enum ieee80211_if_conf_change.
* @bssid: BSSID of the network we are associated to/creating.
+ * @enable_beacon: Indicates whether beacons can be sent.
+ * This is valid only for AP/IBSS/MESH modes.
*
* This structure is passed to the config_interface() callback of
* &struct ieee80211_hw.
@@ -664,6 +668,7 @@
struct ieee80211_if_conf {
u32 changed;
const u8 *bssid;
+ bool enable_beacon;
};
/**