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authorJouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>2009-04-20 18:39:05 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-04-22 16:57:17 -0400
commitb9a5f8cab751d362f7c2d94899ca788c22fcd1ef (patch)
treee769e2f59ef845cf7c7cc93b64d33eeed49bb9f7 /include/linux
parent9e52b0623c6eb49c3f23a326c1fb97bdecc49ba1 (diff)
nl80211: Add set/get for frag/rts threshold and retry limits
Add new nl80211 attributes that can be used with NL80211_CMD_SET_WIPHY and NL80211_CMD_GET_WIPHY to manage fragmentation/RTS threshold and retry limits. Since these values are stored in struct wiphy, remove the local copy from mac80211 where feasible (frag & rts threshold). The retry limits are currently needed in struct ieee80211_conf, but these could be eventually removed since the driver should have access to the values in struct wiphy. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/nl80211.h24
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/nl80211.h b/include/linux/nl80211.h
index 25ce3e42bd1..dc9d9ec5d1a 100644
--- a/include/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -46,8 +46,10 @@
* to get a list of all present wiphys.
* @NL80211_CMD_SET_WIPHY: set wiphy parameters, needs %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY or
* %NL80211_ATTR_IFINDEX; can be used to set %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_NAME,
- * %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_TXQ_PARAMS, %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ, and/or
- * %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_CHANNEL_TYPE.
+ * %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_TXQ_PARAMS, %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ,
+ * %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_CHANNEL_TYPE, %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_RETRY_SHORT,
+ * %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_RETRY_LONG, %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FRAG_THRESHOLD,
+ * and/or %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_RTS_THRESHOLD.
* @NL80211_CMD_NEW_WIPHY: Newly created wiphy, response to get request
* or rename notification. Has attributes %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY and
* %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_NAME.
@@ -337,6 +339,18 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
* NL80211_CHAN_HT20 = HT20 only
* NL80211_CHAN_HT40MINUS = secondary channel is below the primary channel
* NL80211_CHAN_HT40PLUS = secondary channel is above the primary channel
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_RETRY_SHORT: TX retry limit for frames whose length is
+ * less than or equal to the RTS threshold; allowed range: 1..255;
+ * dot11ShortRetryLimit; u8
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_RETRY_LONG: TX retry limit for frames whose length is
+ * greater than the RTS threshold; allowed range: 1..255;
+ * dot11ShortLongLimit; u8
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FRAG_THRESHOLD: fragmentation threshold, i.e., maximum
+ * length in octets for frames; allowed range: 256..8000, disable
+ * fragmentation with (u32)-1; dot11FragmentationThreshold; u32
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_RTS_THRESHOLD: RTS threshold (TX frames with length
+ * larger than or equal to this use RTS/CTS handshake); allowed range:
+ * 0..65536, disable with (u32)-1; dot11RTSThreshold; u32
*
* @NL80211_ATTR_IFINDEX: network interface index of the device to operate on
* @NL80211_ATTR_IFNAME: network interface name
@@ -565,6 +579,12 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
NL80211_ATTR_FREQ_FIXED,
+
+ NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_RETRY_SHORT,
+ NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_RETRY_LONG,
+ NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FRAG_THRESHOLD,
+ NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_RTS_THRESHOLD,
+
/* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,