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nl80211: allow multiple active scheduled scan requests
authorArend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Fri, 21 Apr 2017 12:05:00 +0000 (13:05 +0100)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Wed, 26 Apr 2017 21:17:38 +0000 (23:17 +0200)
commit303824dcd968ec8f875567f37170077343fa4a22
tree307efb9026256dada2b4bce49cfa087018e640b1
parent8fb3a21ad76780a900e7bb969b1692e2efa7d4e3
nl80211: allow multiple active scheduled scan requests

This patch implements the idea to have multiple scheduled scan requests
running concurrently. It mainly illustrates how to deal with the incoming
request from user-space in terms of backward compatibility. In order to
use multiple scheduled scans user-space needs to provide a flag attribute
NL80211_ATTR_SCHED_SCAN_MULTI to indicate support. If not the request is
treated as a legacy scan.

Drivers currently supporting scheduled scan are now indicating they support
a single scheduled scan request. This obsoletes WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_SCHED_SCAN.

Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieter-paul.giesberts@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
[clean up netlink destroy path to avoid allocations, code cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
13 files changed:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/main.c
include/net/cfg80211.h
include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
net/wireless/core.c
net/wireless/core.h
net/wireless/nl80211.c
net/wireless/rdev-ops.h
net/wireless/scan.c
net/wireless/trace.h