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authorIlan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>2013-02-12 11:34:13 +0400
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2013-03-06 19:35:49 +0400
commitd339d5ca8eee34f3c70386cf2545edc53e546a13 (patch)
tree30587aa1e41343adcf10b0716e54964410d86edf /include/net/mac80211.h
parentf62fab735e99af2190eba03f565adaca5c002882 (diff)
downloadlinux-d339d5ca8eee34f3c70386cf2545edc53e546a13.tar.xz
mac80211: Allow drivers to differentiate between ROC types
Some devices can handle remain on channel requests differently based on the request type/priority. Add support to differentiate between different ROC types, i.e., indicate that the ROC is required for sending managment frames. Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/mac80211.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/mac80211.h21
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index f7eba1300d82..9b0d342c0675 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -2135,6 +2135,24 @@ enum ieee80211_rate_control_changed {
};
/**
+ * enum ieee80211_roc_type - remain on channel type
+ *
+ * With the support for multi channel contexts and multi channel operations,
+ * remain on channel operations might be limited/deferred/aborted by other
+ * flows/operations which have higher priority (and vise versa).
+ * Specifying the ROC type can be used by devices to prioritize the ROC
+ * operations compared to other operations/flows.
+ *
+ * @IEEE80211_ROC_TYPE_NORMAL: There are no special requirements for this ROC.
+ * @IEEE80211_ROC_TYPE_MGMT_TX: The remain on channel request is required
+ * for sending managment frames offchannel.
+ */
+enum ieee80211_roc_type {
+ IEEE80211_ROC_TYPE_NORMAL = 0,
+ IEEE80211_ROC_TYPE_MGMT_TX,
+};
+
+/**
* struct ieee80211_ops - callbacks from mac80211 to the driver
*
* This structure contains various callbacks that the driver may
@@ -2687,7 +2705,8 @@ struct ieee80211_ops {
int (*remain_on_channel)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
struct ieee80211_channel *chan,
- int duration);
+ int duration,
+ enum ieee80211_roc_type type);
int (*cancel_remain_on_channel)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw);
int (*set_ringparam)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u32 tx, u32 rx);
void (*get_ringparam)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,