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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-04-03 14:35:57 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-04-11 22:23:49 +0200
commit4b6f1dd6a6faf4ed8d209bbd548e78b15e55aee8 (patch)
tree7d79667ca414d70b99cb82a646d1a3c2cc466670 /include/net/mac80211.h
parentmac80211: manage AP netdev carrier state (diff)
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mac80211: add explicit monitor interface if needed
The queue mapping redesign that I'm planning to do will break pure injection unless we handle monitor interfaces explicitly. One possible option would be to have the driver tell mac80211 about monitor mode queues etc., but that would duplicate the API since we already need to have queue assignments handled per virtual interface. So in order to solve this, have a virtual monitor interface that is added whenever all active vifs are monitors. We could also use the state of one of the monitor interfaces, but managing that would be complicated, so allocate separate state. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/mac80211.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/mac80211.h6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index c8ef45176b3e..2956a206235f 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1175,6 +1175,10 @@ enum sta_notify_cmd {
* @IEEE80211_HW_SCAN_WHILE_IDLE: The device can do hw scan while
* being idle (i.e. mac80211 doesn't have to go idle-off during the
* the scan).
+ *
+ * @IEEE80211_HW_WANT_MONITOR_VIF: The driver would like to be informed of
+ * a virtual monitor interface when monitor interfaces are the only
+ * active interfaces.
*/
enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL = 1<<0,
@@ -1191,7 +1195,7 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK = 1<<11,
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_PS = 1<<12,
IEEE80211_HW_MFP_CAPABLE = 1<<13,
- /* reuse bit 14 */
+ IEEE80211_HW_WANT_MONITOR_VIF = 1<<14,
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_STATIC_SMPS = 1<<15,
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_SMPS = 1<<16,
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_UAPSD = 1<<17,