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authorGautam Kumar Shukla <gautams@broadcom.com>2014-12-23 16:55:19 +0100
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2015-01-06 12:10:24 +0100
commitd75bb06b61cb69ee6223d791d3bb230e68623b20 (patch)
treea395b7335718bcafbd87275bb148169ed708666c /include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
parent1803f594cbf9bb2e662ac945038113d0d0cc5e89 (diff)
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cfg80211: add extensible feature flag attribute
With the wiphy::features flag being used up this patch adds a new field wiphy::ext_features. Considering extensibility this new field is declared as a byte array. This extensible flag is exposed to user-space by NL80211_ATTR_EXT_FEATURES. Cc: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Gautam (Gautam Kumar) Shukla <gautams@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h')
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1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
index 54f3911..f95d354 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -1713,6 +1713,13 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
* obtained from it is coming from the device's wiphy and not the global
* cfg80211 regdomain.
*
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_EXT_FEATURES: extended feature flags contained in a byte
+ * array. The feature flags are identified by their bit index (see &enum
+ * nl80211_ext_feature_index). The bit index is ordered starting at the
+ * least-significant bit of the first byte in the array, ie. bit index 0
+ * is located at bit 0 of byte 0. bit index 25 would be located at bit 1
+ * of byte 3 (u8 array).
+ *
* @NUM_NL80211_ATTR: total number of nl80211_attrs available
* @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined
* @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use
@@ -2072,6 +2079,8 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_SELF_MANAGED_REG,
+ NL80211_ATTR_EXT_FEATURES,
+
/* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,
@@ -4224,6 +4233,19 @@ enum nl80211_feature_flags {
};
/**
+ * enum nl80211_ext_feature_index - bit index of extended features.
+ *
+ * @NUM_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES: number of extended features.
+ * @MAX_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES: highest extended feature index.
+ */
+enum nl80211_ext_feature_index {
+
+ /* add new features before the definition below */
+ NUM_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES,
+ MAX_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES = NUM_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES - 1
+};
+
+/**
* enum nl80211_probe_resp_offload_support_attr - optional supported
* protocols for probe-response offloading by the driver/FW.
* To be used with the %NL80211_ATTR_PROBE_RESP_OFFLOAD attribute.
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