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cfg80211/nl80211: add DFS offload flag

Add wiphy EXT_FEATURE flag to indicate that HW or driver does all DFS actions by itself. User-space functionality already implemented in hostapd using vendor-specific (QCA) OUI to advertise DFS offload support. Need to introduce generic flag to inform about DFS offload support. For devices with DFS_OFFLOAD flag set user-space will no longer need to issue CAC or do any actions in response to "radar detected" events. HW will do everything by itself and send events to user-space to indicate that CAC was started/finished, etc.

Dmitry Lebed committed 8 years ago

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include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h+7−0
@@ -4999,6 +4999,12 @@ enum nl80211_feature_flags { · 4998 unmodified lines
4999 * @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_LOW_SPAN_SCAN: Driver supports low span scan.4999 * @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_LOW_SPAN_SCAN: Driver supports low span scan.
5000 * @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_LOW_POWER_SCAN: Driver supports low power scan.5000 * @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_LOW_POWER_SCAN: Driver supports low power scan.
5001 * @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_HIGH_ACCURACY_SCAN: Driver supports high accuracy scan.5001 * @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_HIGH_ACCURACY_SCAN: Driver supports high accuracy scan.
5002 * @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_DFS_OFFLOAD: HW/driver will offload DFS actions.
5003 * Device or driver will do all DFS-related actions by itself,
5004 * informing user-space about CAC progress, radar detection event,
5005 * channel change triggered by radar detection event.
5006 * No need to start CAC from user-space, no need to react to
5007 * "radar detected" event.
5002 *5008 *
5003 * @NUM_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES: number of extended features.5009 * @NUM_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES: number of extended features.
5004 * @MAX_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES: highest extended feature index.5010 * @MAX_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES: highest extended feature index.
@@ -5029,6 +5035,7 @@ enum nl80211_ext_feature_index { · 24 unmodified lines
5029 NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_LOW_SPAN_SCAN,5035 NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_LOW_SPAN_SCAN,
5030 NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_LOW_POWER_SCAN,5036 NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_LOW_POWER_SCAN,
5031 NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_HIGH_ACCURACY_SCAN,5037 NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_HIGH_ACCURACY_SCAN,
5038 NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_DFS_OFFLOAD,
5032 5039
5033 /* add new features before the definition below */5040 /* add new features before the definition below */
5034 NUM_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES,5041 NUM_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES,