mac80211: always allow calling ieee80211_connection_loss()

With multi-channel, there's a corner case where a driver
doesn't receive a beacon soon enough to be able to sync
its timers with the AP. In this case, the only recovery
(after trying again) is to disconnect from the AP. Allow
calling ieee80211_connection_loss() for such cases. To
make that possible, modify the work function to not rely
on the IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR flag but use new
state kept in the interface instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 164fd4b6503c..7da11211825d 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -3877,6 +3877,8 @@ void ieee80211_beacon_loss(struct ieee80211_vif *vif);
  * When beacon filtering is enabled with %IEEE80211_VIF_BEACON_FILTER, and
  * %IEEE80211_CONF_PS and %IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR are set, the driver
  * needs to inform if the connection to the AP has been lost.
+ * The function may also be called if the connection needs to be terminated
+ * for some other reason, even if %IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR isn't set.
  *
  * This function will cause immediate change to disassociated state,
  * without connection recovery attempts.