cfg80211: introduce critical protocol indication from user-space
Some protocols need a more reliable connection to complete
successful in reasonable time. This patch adds a user-space
API to indicate the wireless driver that a critical protocol
is about to commence and when it is done, using nl80211 primitives
NL80211_CMD_CRIT_PROTOCOL_START and NL80211_CRIT_PROTOCOL_STOP.
There can be only on critical protocol session started per
registered cfg80211 device.
The driver can support this by implementing the cfg80211 callbacks
.crit_proto_start() and .crit_proto_stop(). Examples of protocols
that can benefit from this are DHCP, EAPOL, APIPA. Exactly how the
link can/should be made more reliable is up to the driver. Things
to consider are avoid scanning, no multi-channel operations, and
alter coexistence schemes.
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
diff --git a/net/wireless/core.h b/net/wireless/core.h
index 124e5e7..fd35dae 100644
--- a/net/wireless/core.h
+++ b/net/wireless/core.h
@@ -88,6 +88,9 @@
struct delayed_work dfs_update_channels_wk;
+ /* netlink port which started critical protocol (0 means not started) */
+ u32 crit_proto_nlportid;
+
/* must be last because of the way we do wiphy_priv(),
* and it should at least be aligned to NETDEV_ALIGN */
struct wiphy wiphy __aligned(NETDEV_ALIGN);