Return-path: Received: from na3sys009aog114.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.211]:38879 "EHLO na3sys009aog114.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754134Ab2JRGgC (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2012 02:36:02 -0400 From: Bing Zhao To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: Johannes Berg , "John W. Linville" , Sam Leffler , Amitkumar Karwar , Bing Zhao Subject: [PATCH v6 1/6] {nl,cfg}80211: add a flags word to scan requests Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:34:26 -0700 Message-Id: <1350542071-26498-2-git-send-email-bzhao@marvell.com> (sfid-20121018_083605_267000_078BA384) In-Reply-To: <1350542071-26498-1-git-send-email-bzhao@marvell.com> References: <1350542071-26498-1-git-send-email-bzhao@marvell.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Sam Leffler Add a flags word to direct and scheduled scan requests; it will be used for control of optional behaviours such as flushing the bss cache prior to doing a scan. Signed-off-by: Sam Leffler Tested-by: Amitkumar Karwar Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- include/net/cfg80211.h | 4 ++++ include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 4 ++++ net/wireless/nl80211.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h index 607b5c0..d95da8f 100644 --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h @@ -1002,6 +1002,7 @@ struct cfg80211_ssid { * @n_channels: total number of channels to scan * @ie: optional information element(s) to add into Probe Request or %NULL * @ie_len: length of ie in octets + * @flags: bit field of flags controlling operation * @rates: bitmap of rates to advertise for each band * @wiphy: the wiphy this was for * @wdev: the wireless device to scan for @@ -1014,6 +1015,7 @@ struct cfg80211_scan_request { u32 n_channels; const u8 *ie; size_t ie_len; + u32 flags; u32 rates[IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS]; @@ -1046,6 +1048,7 @@ struct cfg80211_match_set { * @interval: interval between each scheduled scan cycle * @ie: optional information element(s) to add into Probe Request or %NULL * @ie_len: length of ie in octets + * @flags: bit field of flags controlling operation * @match_sets: sets of parameters to be matched for a scan result * entry to be considered valid and to be passed to the host * (others are filtered out). @@ -1063,6 +1066,7 @@ struct cfg80211_sched_scan_request { u32 interval; const u8 *ie; size_t ie_len; + u32 flags; struct cfg80211_match_set *match_sets; int n_match_sets; s32 rssi_thold; diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h index 71ab23b..751a292 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h @@ -1279,6 +1279,8 @@ enum nl80211_commands { * @NL80211_ATTR_VHT_CAPABILITY: VHT Capability information element (from * association request when used with NL80211_CMD_NEW_STATION) * + * @NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FLAGS: scan request control flags (u32) + * * @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined * @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use */ @@ -1540,6 +1542,8 @@ enum nl80211_attrs { NL80211_ATTR_VHT_CAPABILITY, + NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FLAGS, + /* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */ __NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST, diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index ef170e9..dc08211 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -356,6 +356,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NL80211_ATTR_MAX+1] = { [NL80211_ATTR_USER_REG_HINT_TYPE] = { .type = NLA_U32 }, [NL80211_ATTR_SAE_DATA] = { .type = NLA_BINARY, }, [NL80211_ATTR_VHT_CAPABILITY] = { .len = NL80211_VHT_CAPABILITY_LEN }, + [NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FLAGS] = { .type = NLA_U32 }, }; /* policy for the key attributes */ @@ -4367,6 +4368,10 @@ static int nl80211_trigger_scan(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) } } + if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FLAGS]) + request->flags = nla_get_u32( + info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FLAGS]); + request->no_cck = nla_get_flag(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_TX_NO_CCK_RATE]); @@ -4598,6 +4603,10 @@ static int nl80211_start_sched_scan(struct sk_buff *skb, request->ie_len); } + if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FLAGS]) + request->flags = nla_get_u32( + info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FLAGS]); + request->dev = dev; request->wiphy = &rdev->wiphy; request->interval = interval; @@ -7663,6 +7672,9 @@ static int nl80211_add_scan_req(struct sk_buff *msg, nla_put(msg, NL80211_ATTR_IE, req->ie_len, req->ie)) goto nla_put_failure; + if (req->flags) + nla_put_u32(msg, NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FLAGS, req->flags); + return 0; nla_put_failure: return -ENOBUFS; -- 1.7.0.4