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>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c
index 6f0fe35..8d5c19e 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/main.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/main.c
@@ -168,7 +168,6 @@
return 0;
memset(&conf, 0, sizeof(conf));
- conf.changed = changed;
if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION ||
sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC)
@@ -183,9 +182,50 @@
return -EINVAL;
}
+ switch (sdata->vif.type) {
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP:
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC:
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT:
+ break;
+ default:
+ /* do not warn to simplify caller in scan.c */
+ changed &= ~IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON_ENABLED;
+ if (WARN_ON(changed & IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ changed &= ~IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ if (changed & IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON_ENABLED) {
+ if (local->sw_scanning) {
+ conf.enable_beacon = false;
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * Beacon should be enabled, but AP mode must
+ * check whether there is a beacon configured.
+ */
+ switch (sdata->vif.type) {
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP:
+ conf.enable_beacon =
+ !!rcu_dereference(sdata->u.ap.beacon);
+ break;
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC:
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT:
+ conf.enable_beacon = true;
+ break;
+ default:
+ /* not reached */
+ WARN_ON(1);
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
if (WARN_ON(!conf.bssid && (changed & IEEE80211_IFCC_BSSID)))
return -EINVAL;
+ conf.changed = changed;
+
return local->ops->config_interface(local_to_hw(local),
&sdata->vif, &conf);
}