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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2010-11-24 08:10:05 +0100 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2010-11-24 16:19:36 -0500 |
| commit | c063dbf52b998b852122dff07a8b8dd430b38437 (patch) | |
| tree | b27cc73fa8a1d9ed8fb5b0a1306e8194e18662a9 /include | |
| parent | 79b1c460a0b55e55981c25c56597c4d5d2872de3 (diff) | |
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cfg80211: allow using CQM event to notify packet loss
This adds the ability for drivers to use CQM events
to notify about packet loss for specific stations
(which could be the AP for the managed mode case).
Since the threshold might be determined by the
driver (it isn't passed in right now) it will be
passed out of the driver to userspace in the event.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/nl80211.h | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/cfg80211.h | 12 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/nl80211.h b/include/linux/nl80211.h index 037b4e49889..d706bf3badc 100644 --- a/include/linux/nl80211.h +++ b/include/linux/nl80211.h @@ -1819,6 +1819,8 @@ enum nl80211_ps_state { * the minimum amount the RSSI level must change after an event before a * new event may be issued (to reduce effects of RSSI oscillation). * @NL80211_ATTR_CQM_RSSI_THRESHOLD_EVENT: RSSI threshold event + * @NL80211_ATTR_CQM_PKT_LOSS_EVENT: a u32 value indicating that this many + * consecutive packets were not acknowledged by the peer * @__NL80211_ATTR_CQM_AFTER_LAST: internal * @NL80211_ATTR_CQM_MAX: highest key attribute */ @@ -1827,6 +1829,7 @@ enum nl80211_attr_cqm { NL80211_ATTR_CQM_RSSI_THOLD, NL80211_ATTR_CQM_RSSI_HYST, NL80211_ATTR_CQM_RSSI_THRESHOLD_EVENT, + NL80211_ATTR_CQM_PKT_LOSS_EVENT, /* keep last */ __NL80211_ATTR_CQM_AFTER_LAST, diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h index dd4c43f512e..0663945cfa4 100644 --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h @@ -2601,6 +2601,18 @@ void cfg80211_cqm_rssi_notify(struct net_device *dev, enum nl80211_cqm_rssi_threshold_event rssi_event, gfp_t gfp); +/** + * cfg80211_cqm_pktloss_notify - notify userspace about packetloss to peer + * @dev: network device + * @peer: peer's MAC address + * @num_packets: how many packets were lost -- should be a fixed threshold + * but probably no less than maybe 50, or maybe a throughput dependent + * threshold (to account for temporary interference) + * @gfp: context flags + */ +void cfg80211_cqm_pktloss_notify(struct net_device *dev, + const u8 *peer, u32 num_packets, gfp_t gfp); + /* Logging, debugging and troubleshooting/diagnostic helpers. */ /* wiphy_printk helpers, similar to dev_printk */ |