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cfg80211: Add connection quality monitoring support to nl80211

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Add support for basic configuration of a connection quality monitoring to the
nl80211 interface, and basic support for notifying about triggered monitoring
events.

Via this interface a user-space connection manager may configure and receive
pre-warning events of deteriorating WLAN connection quality, and start
preparing for roaming in advance, before the connection is already lost.

An example usage of such a trigger is starting scanning for nearby AP's in
an attempt to find one with better connection quality, and associate to it
before the connection characteristics of the existing connection become too bad
or the association is even lost, leading in a prolonged delay in connectivity.

The interface currently supports only RSSI, but it could be later extended
to include other parameters, such as signal-to-noise ratio, if need for that
arises.

Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Juuso Oikarinen
2010-03-23 09:02:33 +02:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 921ca03c8f
commit d6dc1a3863
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net/wireless/mlme.c
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@@ -894,3 +894,16 @@ void cfg80211_action_tx_status(struct net_device *dev, u64 cookie,
nl80211_send_action_tx_status(rdev, dev, cookie, buf, len, ack, gfp);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_action_tx_status);
void cfg80211_cqm_rssi_notify(struct net_device *dev,
enum nl80211_cqm_rssi_threshold_event rssi_event,
gfp_t gfp)
{
struct wireless_dev *wdev = dev->ieee80211_ptr;
struct wiphy *wiphy = wdev->wiphy;
struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev = wiphy_to_dev(wiphy);
/* Indicate roaming trigger event to user space */
nl80211_send_cqm_rssi_notify(rdev, dev, rssi_event, gfp);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_cqm_rssi_notify);