nl80211: Add new WIPHY attribute COVERAGE_CLASS
The new attribute NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_COVERAGE_CLASS sets IEEE 802.11
Coverage Class, which depends on maximum distance of nodes in a
wireless network. It's required for long distance links (more than a few
hundred meters).
The attribute is now ignored by two non-mac80211 drivers, rndis and
iwmc3200wifi, together with WIPHY_PARAM_RETRY_SHORT and
WIPHY_PARAM_RETRY_LONG. If it turns out to be a problem, we could split
set_wiphy_params callback or add new capability bits.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Turek <8an@praha12.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index e3bee3c..c09fbcd 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_RETRY_LONG] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FRAG_THRESHOLD] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_RTS_THRESHOLD] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
+ [NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_COVERAGE_CLASS] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
[NL80211_ATTR_IFTYPE] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
[NL80211_ATTR_IFINDEX] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
@@ -444,6 +445,8 @@
dev->wiphy.frag_threshold);
NLA_PUT_U32(msg, NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_RTS_THRESHOLD,
dev->wiphy.rts_threshold);
+ NLA_PUT_U8(msg, NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_COVERAGE_CLASS,
+ dev->wiphy.coverage_class);
NLA_PUT_U8(msg, NL80211_ATTR_MAX_NUM_SCAN_SSIDS,
dev->wiphy.max_scan_ssids);
@@ -684,6 +687,7 @@
u32 changed;
u8 retry_short = 0, retry_long = 0;
u32 frag_threshold = 0, rts_threshold = 0;
+ u8 coverage_class = 0;
rtnl_lock();
@@ -806,9 +810,16 @@
changed |= WIPHY_PARAM_RTS_THRESHOLD;
}
+ if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_COVERAGE_CLASS]) {
+ coverage_class = nla_get_u8(
+ info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_COVERAGE_CLASS]);
+ changed |= WIPHY_PARAM_COVERAGE_CLASS;
+ }
+
if (changed) {
u8 old_retry_short, old_retry_long;
u32 old_frag_threshold, old_rts_threshold;
+ u8 old_coverage_class;
if (!rdev->ops->set_wiphy_params) {
result = -EOPNOTSUPP;
@@ -819,6 +830,7 @@
old_retry_long = rdev->wiphy.retry_long;
old_frag_threshold = rdev->wiphy.frag_threshold;
old_rts_threshold = rdev->wiphy.rts_threshold;
+ old_coverage_class = rdev->wiphy.coverage_class;
if (changed & WIPHY_PARAM_RETRY_SHORT)
rdev->wiphy.retry_short = retry_short;
@@ -828,6 +840,8 @@
rdev->wiphy.frag_threshold = frag_threshold;
if (changed & WIPHY_PARAM_RTS_THRESHOLD)
rdev->wiphy.rts_threshold = rts_threshold;
+ if (changed & WIPHY_PARAM_COVERAGE_CLASS)
+ rdev->wiphy.coverage_class = coverage_class;
result = rdev->ops->set_wiphy_params(&rdev->wiphy, changed);
if (result) {
@@ -835,6 +849,7 @@
rdev->wiphy.retry_long = old_retry_long;
rdev->wiphy.frag_threshold = old_frag_threshold;
rdev->wiphy.rts_threshold = old_rts_threshold;
+ rdev->wiphy.coverage_class = old_coverage_class;
}
}