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| author | Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> | 2015-09-09 09:46:32 +0200 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2015-09-29 15:56:33 +0200 |
| commit | 35afa588624c4f9e19a0edfbb51769b59c90bb0d (patch) | |
| tree | 49f7cb4995e98ef153d51068fccda7e5b3ccd852 /include | |
| parent | 5359d112dcb081fd7a5f2de287fa995f6ba0800c (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')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/mac80211.h | 4 |
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 |