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>
This commit is contained in:
Johannes Berg
2009-01-22 18:07:31 +01:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 07c1e85251
commit 078e1e60dd
6 changed files with 66 additions and 14 deletions

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@@ -1599,7 +1599,8 @@ static int ieee80211_sta_join_ibss(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
ifsta->probe_resp = skb;
ieee80211_if_config(sdata, IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON);
ieee80211_if_config(sdata, IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON |
IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON_ENABLED);
rates = 0;