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authorHelmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>2015-09-09 09:46:32 +0200
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2015-09-29 15:56:33 +0200
commit35afa588624c4f9e19a0edfbb51769b59c90bb0d (patch)
tree49f7cb4995e98ef153d51068fccda7e5b3ccd852 /include/net/mac80211.h
parent5359d112dcb081fd7a5f2de287fa995f6ba0800c (diff)
mac80211: Copy tx'ed beacons to monitor mode
When debugging wireless powersave issues on the AP side it's quite helpful to see our own beacons that are transmitted by the hardware/driver. However, this is not that easy since beacons don't pass through the regular TX queues. Preferably drivers would call ieee80211_tx_status also for tx'ed beacons but that's not always possible. Hence, just send a copy of each beacon generated by ieee80211_beacon_get_tim to monitor devices when they are getting fetched by the driver. Also add a HW flag IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_TX_STATUS that can be used by drivers to indicate that they report TX status for beacons. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> (with a fix from Christian Lamparted rolled in) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/mac80211.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/mac80211.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 3424ac6efb2a..301fceb2fd10 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1898,6 +1898,9 @@ struct ieee80211_txq {
* @IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_AMSDU_IN_AMPDU: The driver supports receiving A-MSDUs
* within A-MPDU.
*
+ * @IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_TX_STATUS: The device/driver provides TX status
+ * for sent beacons.
+ *
* @NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS: number of hardware flags, used for sizing arrays
*/
enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
@@ -1932,6 +1935,7 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
IEEE80211_HW_SINGLE_SCAN_ON_ALL_BANDS,
IEEE80211_HW_TDLS_WIDER_BW,
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_AMSDU_IN_AMPDU,
+ IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_TX_STATUS,
/* keep last, obviously */
NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS