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| author | Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> | 2009-04-20 20:39:05 +0400 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-04-23 00:57:17 +0400 |
| commit | b9a5f8cab751d362f7c2d94899ca788c22fcd1ef (patch) | |
| tree | e769e2f59ef845cf7c7cc93b64d33eeed49bb9f7 /include/linux/nl80211.h | |
| parent | 9e52b0623c6eb49c3f23a326c1fb97bdecc49ba1 (diff) | |
| download | linux-b9a5f8cab751d362f7c2d94899ca788c22fcd1ef.tar.xz | |
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/nl80211.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/nl80211.h | 24 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/nl80211.h b/include/linux/nl80211.h index 25ce3e42bd10..dc9d9ec5d1ae 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, |