cfg80211: add cellular base station regulatory hint support

Cellular base stations can provide hints to cfg80211 about
where they think we are. This can be done for example on
a cell phone. To enable these hints we simply allow them
through as user regulatory hints but we allow userspace
to clasify the hint as either coming directly from the
user or coming from a cellular base station. This option
is only available when you enable
CONFIG_CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS.

The base station hints themselves will not be processed
by the core unless at least one device on the system
supports this feature.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nl80211.h b/include/linux/nl80211.h
index d6cfacc3ce4d..2f3878806403 100644
--- a/include/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -1245,6 +1245,12 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
  * @NL80211_ATTR_BG_SCAN_PERIOD: Background scan period in seconds
  *      or 0 to disable background scan.
  *
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_USER_REG_HINT_TYPE: type of regulatory hint passed from
+ *      userspace. If unset it is assumed the hint comes directly from
+ *      a user. If set code could specify exactly what type of source
+ *      was used to provide the hint. For the different types of
+ *      allowed user regulatory hints see nl80211_user_reg_hint_type.
+ *
  * @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined
  * @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use
  */
@@ -1498,6 +1504,8 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
 
         NL80211_ATTR_WDEV,
 
+        NL80211_ATTR_USER_REG_HINT_TYPE,
+
         /* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
 
         __NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,
@@ -2061,6 +2069,26 @@ enum nl80211_dfs_regions {
 };
 
 /**
+ * enum nl80211_user_reg_hint_type - type of user regulatory hint
+ *
+ * @NL80211_USER_REG_HINT_USER: a user sent the hint. This is always
+ *      assumed if the attribute is not set.
+ * @NL80211_USER_REG_HINT_CELL_BASE: the hint comes from a cellular
+ *      base station. Device drivers that have been tested to work
+ *      properly to support this type of hint can enable these hints
+ *      by setting the NL80211_FEATURE_CELL_BASE_REG_HINTS feature
+ *      capability on the struct wiphy. The wireless core will
+ *      ignore all cell base station hints until at least one device
+ *      present has been registered with the wireless core that
+ *      has listed NL80211_FEATURE_CELL_BASE_REG_HINTS as a
+ *      supported feature.
+ */
+enum nl80211_user_reg_hint_type {
+        NL80211_USER_REG_HINT_USER      = 0,
+        NL80211_USER_REG_HINT_CELL_BASE = 1,
+};
+
+/**
  * enum nl80211_survey_info - survey information
  *
  * These attribute types are used with %NL80211_ATTR_SURVEY_INFO
@@ -2963,11 +2991,15 @@ enum nl80211_ap_sme_features {
  * @NL80211_FEATURE_HT_IBSS: This driver supports IBSS with HT datarates.
  * @NL80211_FEATURE_INACTIVITY_TIMER: This driver takes care of freeing up
  *      the connected inactive stations in AP mode.
+ * @NL80211_FEATURE_CELL_BASE_REG_HINTS: This driver has been tested
+ *      to work properly to suppport receiving regulatory hints from
+ *      cellular base stations.
  */
 enum nl80211_feature_flags {
         NL80211_FEATURE_SK_TX_STATUS    = 1 << 0,
         NL80211_FEATURE_HT_IBSS         = 1 << 1,
         NL80211_FEATURE_INACTIVITY_TIMER = 1 << 2,
+        NL80211_FEATURE_CELL_BASE_REG_HINTS = 1 << 3,
 };
 
 /**