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cfg80211: send regulatory beacon hint events to userspace

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This informs userspace when a change has occured on a world
roaming wiphy's channel which has lifted some restrictions
due to a regulatory beacon hint.

Because this is now sent to userspace through the regulatory
multicast group we remove the debug prints we used to use as
they are no longer necessary.

Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-04-02 14:08:09 -04:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 5dab3b8a68
commit 6bad876662
4 changed files with 106 additions and 15 deletions
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net/wireless/nl80211.c
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@@ -3491,6 +3491,60 @@ void nl80211_michael_mic_failure(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
nlmsg_free(msg);
}
void nl80211_send_beacon_hint_event(struct wiphy *wiphy,
struct ieee80211_channel *channel_before,
struct ieee80211_channel *channel_after)
{
struct sk_buff *msg;
void *hdr;
struct nlattr *nl_freq;
msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_GOODSIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!msg)
return;
hdr = nl80211hdr_put(msg, 0, 0, 0, NL80211_CMD_REG_BEACON_HINT);
if (!hdr) {
nlmsg_free(msg);
return;
}
/*
* Since we are applying the beacon hint to a wiphy we know its
* wiphy_idx is valid
*/
NLA_PUT_U32(msg, NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY, get_wiphy_idx(wiphy));
/* Before */
nl_freq = nla_nest_start(msg, NL80211_ATTR_FREQ_BEFORE);
if (!nl_freq)
goto nla_put_failure;
if (nl80211_msg_put_channel(msg, channel_before))
goto nla_put_failure;
nla_nest_end(msg, nl_freq);
/* After */
nl_freq = nla_nest_start(msg, NL80211_ATTR_FREQ_AFTER);
if (!nl_freq)
goto nla_put_failure;
if (nl80211_msg_put_channel(msg, channel_after))
goto nla_put_failure;
nla_nest_end(msg, nl_freq);
if (genlmsg_end(msg, hdr) < 0) {
nlmsg_free(msg);
return;
}
genlmsg_multicast(msg, 0, nl80211_regulatory_mcgrp.id, GFP_ATOMIC);
return;
nla_put_failure:
genlmsg_cancel(msg, hdr);
nlmsg_free(msg);
}
/* initialisation/exit functions */
int nl80211_init(void)