nl80211: Add probe response offload attribute
Notify user-space about probe-response offloading support in the driver.
A wiphy flag is used to indicate support and a bitmap of protocols
determines which protocols are supported.
Change-Id: I13b16c71449ab61f4308b6caa1cca35529f905b4
Signed-off-by: Deepthi Gowri <deepthi@codeaurora.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/nl80211.h b/include/linux/nl80211.h
index 5df1c8d..1dae562 100644
--- a/include/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -1068,6 +1068,19 @@
* with support for the features listed in this attribute, see
* &enum nl80211_ap_sme_features.
*
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_DONT_WAIT_FOR_ACK: Used with %NL80211_CMD_FRAME, this tells
+ * the driver to not wait for an acknowledgement. Note that due to this,
+ * it will also not give a status callback nor return a cookie. This is
+ * mostly useful for probe responses to save airtime.
+ *
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_FEATURE_FLAGS: This u32 attribute contains flags from
+ * &enum nl80211_feature_flags and is advertised in wiphy information.
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_PROBE_RESP_OFFLOAD: Indicates that the HW responds to probe
+ *
+ * requests while operating in AP-mode.
+ * This attribute holds a bitmap of the supported protocols for
+ * offloading (see &enum nl80211_probe_resp_offload_support_attr).
+ *
* @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined
* @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use
*/
@@ -1297,6 +1310,12 @@
NL80211_ATTR_TDLS_EXTERNAL_SETUP,
NL80211_ATTR_DEVICE_AP_SME,
+ NL80211_ATTR_DONT_WAIT_FOR_ACK,
+
+ NL80211_ATTR_FEATURE_FLAGS,
+
+ NL80211_ATTR_PROBE_RESP_OFFLOAD,
+
/* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,
@@ -2487,4 +2506,27 @@
};
*/
+/**
+ * enum nl80211_probe_resp_offload_support_attr - optional supported
+ * protocols for probe-response offloading by the driver/FW.
+ * To be used with the %NL80211_ATTR_PROBE_RESP_OFFLOAD attribute.
+ * Each enum value represents a bit in the bitmap of supported
+ * protocols. Typically a subset of probe-requests belonging to a
+ * supported protocol will be excluded from offload and uploaded
+ * to the host.
+ *
+ * @NL80211_PROBE_RESP_OFFLOAD_SUPPORT_WPS: Support for WPS ver. 1
+ * @NL80211_PROBE_RESP_OFFLOAD_SUPPORT_WPS2: Support for WPS ver. 2
+ * @NL80211_PROBE_RESP_OFFLOAD_SUPPORT_P2P: Support for P2P
+ * @NL80211_PROBE_RESP_OFFLOAD_SUPPORT_80211U: Support for 802.11u
+ */
+
+enum nl80211_probe_resp_offload_support_attr {
+ NL80211_PROBE_RESP_OFFLOAD_SUPPORT_WPS = 1<<0,
+ NL80211_PROBE_RESP_OFFLOAD_SUPPORT_WPS2 = 1<<1,
+ NL80211_PROBE_RESP_OFFLOAD_SUPPORT_P2P = 1<<2,
+ NL80211_PROBE_RESP_OFFLOAD_SUPPORT_80211U = 1<<3,
+};
+
+
#endif /* __LINUX_NL80211_H */