mac80211: add support for tx to abort low priority scan requests
Use NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_LOW_PRIORITY flag in mac80211's scan state
machine to prematurely terminate scan operations if outbound
traffic collides. This is useful for marking background scans so
they don't affect throughput.
Signed-off-by: Sam Leffler <sleffler@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
[set feature flag only if software scan is used]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c
index 931f14f..ba5a232 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/main.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/main.c
@@ -602,6 +602,9 @@
NL80211_FEATURE_SAE |
NL80211_FEATURE_HT_IBSS;
+ if (!ops->hw_scan)
+ wiphy->features |= NL80211_FEATURE_LOW_PRIORITY_SCAN;
+
if (!ops->set_key)
wiphy->flags |= WIPHY_FLAG_IBSS_RSN;