mac80211: support remain-on-channel command

This implements the new remain-on-channel cfg80211
command in mac80211, extending the work interface.

Also change the work purge code to be able to clean
up events properly (pretending they timed out.)

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This commit is contained in:
Johannes Berg
2009-12-23 13:15:42 +01:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 9588bbd552
commit b8bc4b0aa9
6 changed files with 181 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -106,9 +106,13 @@ void ieee80211_offchannel_stop_beaconing(struct ieee80211_local *local)
/*
* only handle non-STA interfaces here, STA interfaces
* are handled in ieee80211_offchannel_stop_station(),
* e.g., from the background scan state machine
* e.g., from the background scan state machine.
*
* In addition, do not stop monitor interface to allow it to be
* used from user space controlled off-channel operations.
*/
if (sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION)
if (sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION &&
sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR)
netif_stop_queue(sdata->dev);
}
mutex_unlock(&local->iflist_mtx);