From: Ilan Peer <[email protected]>
Add a detailed description of NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_COLOCATED_6GHZ
flag.
Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <[email protected]>
---
include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
index f14621a954e1..c22eeb18b996 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -6510,8 +6510,14 @@ enum nl80211_timeout_reason {
* @NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_FREQ_KHZ: report scan results with
* %NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FREQ_KHZ. This also means
* %NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FREQUENCIES will not be included.
- * @NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_COLOCATED_6GHZ: scan for colocated APs reported by
- * 2.4/5 GHz APs
+ * @NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_COLOCATED_6GHZ: scan for collocated APs reported by
+ * 2.4/5 GHz APs. When the flag is set, the scan logic will use the
+ * information from the RNR element found in beacons/probe responses
+ * received on the 2.4/5 GHz channels to actively scan only the 6GHz
+ * channels on which APs are expected to be found. Note that when not set,
+ * the scan logic would scan all 6GHz channels, but since transmission of
+ * probe requests on non PSC channels is limited, it is highly likely that
+ * these channels would passively be scanned.
*/
enum nl80211_scan_flags {
NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_LOW_PRIORITY = 1<<0,
--
2.38.1