nl80211: Add new WIPHY attribute COVERAGE_CLASS
The new attribute NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_COVERAGE_CLASS sets IEEE 802.11
Coverage Class, which depends on maximum distance of nodes in a
wireless network. It's required for long distance links (more than a few
hundred meters).
The attribute is now ignored by two non-mac80211 drivers, rndis and
iwmc3200wifi, together with WIPHY_PARAM_RETRY_SHORT and
WIPHY_PARAM_RETRY_LONG. If it turns out to be a problem, we could split
set_wiphy_params callback or add new capability bits.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Turek <8an@praha12.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/include/linux/nl80211.h b/include/linux/nl80211.h
index 2bfbe88..d4c556d 100644
--- a/include/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -430,6 +430,8 @@
* @NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_RTS_THRESHOLD: RTS threshold (TX frames with length
* larger than or equal to this use RTS/CTS handshake); allowed range:
* 0..65536, disable with (u32)-1; dot11RTSThreshold; u32
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_COVERAGE_CLASS: Coverage Class as defined by IEEE 802.11
+ * section 7.3.2.9; dot11CoverageClass; u8
*
* @NL80211_ATTR_IFINDEX: network interface index of the device to operate on
* @NL80211_ATTR_IFNAME: network interface name
@@ -779,6 +781,8 @@
NL80211_ATTR_COOKIE,
+ NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_COVERAGE_CLASS,
+
/* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
index add7993..a8d5d04 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -837,6 +837,7 @@
WIPHY_PARAM_RETRY_LONG = 1 << 1,
WIPHY_PARAM_FRAG_THRESHOLD = 1 << 2,
WIPHY_PARAM_RTS_THRESHOLD = 1 << 3,
+ WIPHY_PARAM_COVERAGE_CLASS = 1 << 4,
};
/**
@@ -1236,6 +1237,7 @@
u8 retry_long;
u32 frag_threshold;
u32 rts_threshold;
+ u8 coverage_class;
char fw_version[ETHTOOL_BUSINFO_LEN];
u32 hw_version;