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authorHelmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>2015-09-09 10:46:32 +0300
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2015-09-29 16:56:33 +0300
commit35afa588624c4f9e19a0edfbb51769b59c90bb0d (patch)
tree49f7cb4995e98ef153d51068fccda7e5b3ccd852 /net/mac80211/debugfs.c
parent5359d112dcb081fd7a5f2de287fa995f6ba0800c (diff)
downloadlinux-35afa588624c4f9e19a0edfbb51769b59c90bb0d.tar.xz
mac80211: Copy tx'ed beacons to monitor mode
When debugging wireless powersave issues on the AP side it's quite helpful to see our own beacons that are transmitted by the hardware/driver. However, this is not that easy since beacons don't pass through the regular TX queues. Preferably drivers would call ieee80211_tx_status also for tx'ed beacons but that's not always possible. Hence, just send a copy of each beacon generated by ieee80211_beacon_get_tim to monitor devices when they are getting fetched by the driver. Also add a HW flag IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_TX_STATUS that can be used by drivers to indicate that they report TX status for beacons. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> (with a fix from Christian Lamparted rolled in) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/debugfs.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/debugfs.c b/net/mac80211/debugfs.c
index 41726fd4bb78..3636b45440ab 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/debugfs.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/debugfs.c
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ static const char *hw_flag_names[NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS + 1] = {
FLAG(SINGLE_SCAN_ON_ALL_BANDS),
FLAG(TDLS_WIDER_BW),
FLAG(SUPPORTS_AMSDU_IN_AMPDU),
+ FLAG(BEACON_TX_STATUS),
/* keep last for the build bug below */
(void *)0x1