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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)
commit1d28278ff1e31e6320e05afc8b9b5a5b4879c1d7
tree307efb9026256dada2b4bce49cfa087018e640b1
parent5f4bb8872ad06a4f92679059d6cc523da35e1e04
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