cfg80211/nl80211: add beacon settings

This adds the necessary API to cfg80211/nl80211 to allow
changing beaconing settings.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nl80211.h b/include/linux/nl80211.h
index 8dc807d9c29a..f1e455a8b4de 100644
--- a/include/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -47,6 +47,15 @@
  * @NL80211_CMD_DEL_KEY: delete a key identified by %NL80211_ATTR_KEY_IDX
  *      or %NL80211_ATTR_MAC.
  *
+ * @NL80211_CMD_GET_BEACON: retrieve beacon information (returned in a
+ *      %NL80222_CMD_NEW_BEACON message)
+ * @NL80211_CMD_SET_BEACON: set the beacon on an access point interface
+ *      using the %NL80211_ATTR_BEACON_INTERVAL, %NL80211_ATTR_DTIM_PERIOD,
+ *      %NL80211_BEACON_HEAD and %NL80211_BEACON_TAIL attributes.
+ * @NL80211_CMD_NEW_BEACON: add a new beacon to an access point interface,
+ *      parameters are like for %NL80211_CMD_SET_BEACON.
+ * @NL80211_CMD_DEL_BEACON: remove the beacon, stop sending it
+ *
  * @NL80211_CMD_MAX: highest used command number
  * @__NL80211_CMD_AFTER_LAST: internal use
  */
@@ -69,6 +78,11 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
         NL80211_CMD_NEW_KEY,
         NL80211_CMD_DEL_KEY,
 
+        NL80211_CMD_GET_BEACON,
+        NL80211_CMD_SET_BEACON,
+        NL80211_CMD_NEW_BEACON,
+        NL80211_CMD_DEL_BEACON,
+
         /* add commands here */
 
         /* used to define NL80211_CMD_MAX below */
@@ -101,6 +115,11 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
  * @NL80211_ATTR_KEY_SEQ: transmit key sequence number (IV/PN) for TKIP and
  *      CCMP keys, each six bytes in little endian
  *
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_BEACON_INTERVAL: beacon interval in TU
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_DTIM_PERIOD: DTIM period for beaconing
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_BEACON_HEAD: portion of the beacon before the TIM IE
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_BEACON_TAIL: portion of the beacon after the TIM IE
+ *
  * @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined
  * @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use
  */
@@ -123,6 +142,11 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
         NL80211_ATTR_KEY_SEQ,
         NL80211_ATTR_KEY_DEFAULT,
 
+        NL80211_ATTR_BEACON_INTERVAL,
+        NL80211_ATTR_DTIM_PERIOD,
+        NL80211_ATTR_BEACON_HEAD,
+        NL80211_ATTR_BEACON_TAIL,
+
         /* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
 
         __NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,