{nl,cfg}80211: add a flags word to scan requests
Add a flags word to direct and scheduled scan requests; it will
be used for control of optional behaviours such as flushing the
bss cache prior to doing a scan.
Signed-off-by: Sam Leffler <sleffler@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index ef170e9..dc08211 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -356,6 +356,7 @@
[NL80211_ATTR_USER_REG_HINT_TYPE] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
[NL80211_ATTR_SAE_DATA] = { .type = NLA_BINARY, },
[NL80211_ATTR_VHT_CAPABILITY] = { .len = NL80211_VHT_CAPABILITY_LEN },
+ [NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FLAGS] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
};
/* policy for the key attributes */
@@ -4367,6 +4368,10 @@
}
}
+ if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FLAGS])
+ request->flags = nla_get_u32(
+ info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FLAGS]);
+
request->no_cck =
nla_get_flag(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_TX_NO_CCK_RATE]);
@@ -4598,6 +4603,10 @@
request->ie_len);
}
+ if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FLAGS])
+ request->flags = nla_get_u32(
+ info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FLAGS]);
+
request->dev = dev;
request->wiphy = &rdev->wiphy;
request->interval = interval;
@@ -7663,6 +7672,9 @@
nla_put(msg, NL80211_ATTR_IE, req->ie_len, req->ie))
goto nla_put_failure;
+ if (req->flags)
+ nla_put_u32(msg, NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FLAGS, req->flags);
+
return 0;
nla_put_failure:
return -ENOBUFS;