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Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/mac80211.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/mac80211.h | 33 |
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h index 174dc1d7526..d881ed8ad2c 100644 --- a/include/net/mac80211.h +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h @@ -882,6 +882,10 @@ enum ieee80211_tkip_key_type { * * @IEEE80211_HW_MFP_CAPABLE: * Hardware supports management frame protection (MFP, IEEE 802.11w). + * + * @IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTER: + * Hardware supports dropping of irrelevant beacon frames to + * avoid waking up cpu. */ enum ieee80211_hw_flags { IEEE80211_HW_RX_INCLUDES_FCS = 1<<1, @@ -897,6 +901,7 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags { IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK = 1<<11, IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_PS = 1<<12, IEEE80211_HW_MFP_CAPABLE = 1<<13, + IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTER = 1<<14, }; /** @@ -1121,6 +1126,24 @@ ieee80211_get_alt_retry_rate(const struct ieee80211_hw *hw, */ /** + * DOC: Beacon filter support + * + * Some hardware have beacon filter support to reduce host cpu wakeups + * which will reduce system power consumption. It usuallly works so that + * the firmware creates a checksum of the beacon but omits all constantly + * changing elements (TSF, TIM etc). Whenever the checksum changes the + * beacon is forwarded to the host, otherwise it will be just dropped. That + * way the host will only receive beacons where some relevant information + * (for example ERP protection or WMM settings) have changed. + * + * Beacon filter support is informed with %IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTER flag. + * The driver needs to enable beacon filter support whenever power save is + * enabled, that is %IEEE80211_CONF_PS is set. When power save is enabled, + * the stack will not check for beacon miss at all and the driver needs to + * notify about complete loss of beacons with ieee80211_beacon_loss(). + */ + +/** * DOC: Frame filtering * * mac80211 requires to see many management frames for proper @@ -1970,6 +1993,16 @@ void ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb_irqsafe(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, const u8 *ra, struct ieee80211_sta *ieee80211_find_sta(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, const u8 *addr); +/** + * ieee80211_beacon_loss - inform hardware does not receive beacons + * + * @vif: &struct ieee80211_vif pointer from &struct ieee80211_if_init_conf. + * + * When beacon filtering is enabled with IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTERING and + * IEEE80211_CONF_PS is set, the driver needs to inform whenever the + * hardware is not receiving beacons with this function. + */ +void ieee80211_beacon_loss(struct ieee80211_vif *vif); /* Rate control API */ |