wireless: Support ht-capabilities over-rides.

This allows users to disable features such as HT, HT40,
and to modify the MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU settings for
drivers that support it.

The MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU features that may be disabled are
are reported in the phy-info netlink message as a mask.

Attemping to disable features that are not supported will
take no affect, but will not return errors.  This is to aid
backwards compatibility in user-space apps that may not be
clever enough to deal with parsing the the capabilities mask.

This patch only enables the infrastructure.  An additional
patch will enable the feature in mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nl80211.h b/include/linux/nl80211.h
index 6396819a7e41..97bfebfcce90 100644
--- a/include/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -1169,6 +1169,17 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
  * @NL80211_ATTR_PROBE_RESP: Probe Response template data. Contains the entire
  *      probe-response frame. The DA field in the 802.11 header is zero-ed out,
  *      to be filled by the FW.
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_DISABLE_HT:  Force HT capable interfaces to disable
+ *      this feature.  Currently, only supported in mac80211 drivers.
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY_MASK: Specify which bits of the
+ *      ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY to which attention should be paid.
+ *      Currently, only mac80211 NICs support this feature.
+ *      The values that may be configured are:
+ *       MCS rates, MAX-AMSDU, HT-20-40 and HT_CAP_SGI_40
+ *       AMPDU density and AMPDU factor.
+ *      All values are treated as suggestions and may be ignored
+ *      by the driver as required.  The actual values may be seen in
+ *      the station debugfs ht_caps file.
  *
  * @NL80211_ATTR_DFS_REGION: region for regulatory rules which this country
  *    abides to when initiating radiation on DFS channels. A country maps
@@ -1414,6 +1425,9 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
 
         NL80211_ATTR_DFS_REGION,
 
+        NL80211_ATTR_DISABLE_HT,
+        NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY_MASK,
+
         /* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
 
         __NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,