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cfg80211: introduce critical protocol indication from user-space

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Some protocols need a more reliable connection to complete
successful in reasonable time. This patch adds a user-space
API to indicate the wireless driver that a critical protocol
is about to commence and when it is done, using nl80211 primitives
NL80211_CMD_CRIT_PROTOCOL_START and NL80211_CRIT_PROTOCOL_STOP.

There can be only on critical protocol session started per
registered cfg80211 device.

The driver can support this by implementing the cfg80211 callbacks
.crit_proto_start() and .crit_proto_stop(). Examples of protocols
that can benefit from this are DHCP, EAPOL, APIPA. Exactly how the
link can/should be made more reliable is up to the driver. Things
to consider are avoid scanning, no multi-channel operations, and
alter coexistence schemes.

Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Arend van Spriel
2013-04-18 15:49:00 +02:00
committed by Johannes Berg
parent a36473621c
commit 5de1798489
7 changed files with 245 additions and 1 deletions
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@@ -648,6 +648,11 @@ void cfg80211_mlme_unregister_socket(struct wireless_dev *wdev, u32 nlportid)
spin_unlock_bh(&wdev->mgmt_registrations_lock);
if (nlportid && rdev->crit_proto_nlportid == nlportid) {
rdev->crit_proto_nlportid = 0;
rdev_crit_proto_stop(rdev, wdev);
}
if (nlportid == wdev->ap_unexpected_nlportid)
wdev->ap_unexpected_nlportid = 0;
}