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nl80211/cfg80211: Add support to disable CCK rate for management frame

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Add a new nl80211 attribute to specify whether to send the management
frames in CCK rate or not. As of now the wpa_supplicant is disabling
CCK rate at P2P init itself. So this patch helps to send P2P probe
request/probe response/action frames being sent at non CCK rate in 2GHz
without disabling 11b rates.

This attribute is used with NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN and
NL80211_CMD_FRAME commands to disable CCK rate for management frame
transmission.

Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Rajkumar Manoharan
2011-09-25 14:53:30 +05:30
committed by John W. Linville
parent 8ebafde00e
commit e9f935e3e8
6 changed files with 32 additions and 6 deletions
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include/linux/nl80211.h
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@@ -238,6 +238,8 @@
*
* @NL80211_CMD_GET_SCAN: get scan results
* @NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN: trigger a new scan with the given parameters
* %NL80211_ATTR_TX_NO_CCK_RATE is used to decide whether to send the
* probe requests at CCK rate or not.
* @NL80211_CMD_NEW_SCAN_RESULTS: scan notification (as a reply to
* NL80211_CMD_GET_SCAN and on the "scan" multicast group)
* @NL80211_CMD_SCAN_ABORTED: scan was aborted, for unspecified reasons,
@@ -432,6 +434,8 @@
* specified using %NL80211_ATTR_DURATION. When called, this operation
* returns a cookie (%NL80211_ATTR_COOKIE) that will be included with the
* TX status event pertaining to the TX request.
* %NL80211_ATTR_TX_NO_CCK_RATE is used to decide whether to send the
* management frames at CCK rate or not in 2GHz band.
* @NL80211_CMD_FRAME_WAIT_CANCEL: When an off-channel TX was requested, this
* command may be used with the corresponding cookie to cancel the wait
* time if it is known that it is no longer necessary.
@@ -1078,6 +1082,13 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
* @NL80211_ATTR_PMKSA_CANDIDATE: Nested attribute containing the PMKSA caching
* candidate information, see &enum nl80211_pmksa_candidate_attr.
*
* @NL80211_ATTR_TX_NO_CCK_RATE: Indicates whether to use CCK rate or not
* for management frames transmission. In order to avoid p2p probe/action
* frames are being transmitted at CCK rate in 2GHz band, the user space
* applications use this attribute.
* This attribute is used with %NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN and
* %NL80211_CMD_FRAME commands.
*
* @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined
* @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use
*/
@@ -1298,6 +1309,8 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
NL80211_ATTR_PMKSA_CANDIDATE,
NL80211_ATTR_TX_NO_CCK_RATE,
/* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,