mac80211: add PS flag to bss_conf

Currently, ps mode is indicated per device (rather than
per interface), which doesn't make a lot of sense.

Moreover, there are subtle bugs caused by the inability
to indicate ps change along with other changes
(e.g. when the AP deauth us, we'd like to indicate
CHANGED_PS | CHANGED_ASSOC, as changing PS before
notifying about disassociation will result in null-packets
being sent (if IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_PS) while
the sta is already disconnected.)

Keep the current per-device notifications, and add
parallel per-vif notifications.

In order to keep it simple, the per-device ps and
the per-vif ps are orthogonal - the per-vif ps
configuration is determined only by the user
configuration (enable/disable) and the connection
state, and is not affected by other vifs state and
(temporary) dynamic_ps/offchannel operations
(unlike per-device ps).

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index bb86aa6f98dd..d67d3bbe21c1 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ struct ieee80211_low_level_stats {
  * @BSS_CHANGED_IDLE: Idle changed for this BSS/interface.
  * @BSS_CHANGED_SSID: SSID changed for this BSS (AP mode)
  * @BSS_CHANGED_AP_PROBE_RESP: Probe Response changed for this BSS (AP mode)
+ * @BSS_CHANGED_PS: PS changed for this BSS (STA mode)
  */
 enum ieee80211_bss_change {
         BSS_CHANGED_ASSOC               = 1<<0,
@@ -190,6 +191,7 @@ enum ieee80211_bss_change {
         BSS_CHANGED_IDLE                = 1<<14,
         BSS_CHANGED_SSID                = 1<<15,
         BSS_CHANGED_AP_PROBE_RESP       = 1<<16,
+        BSS_CHANGED_PS                  = 1<<17,
 
         /* when adding here, make sure to change ieee80211_reconfig */
 };
@@ -266,6 +268,8 @@ enum ieee80211_rssi_event {
  * @idle: This interface is idle. There's also a global idle flag in the
  *      hardware config which may be more appropriate depending on what
  *      your driver/device needs to do.
+ * @ps: power-save mode (STA only). This flag is NOT affected by
+ *      offchannel/dynamic_ps operations.
  * @ssid: The SSID of the current vif. Only valid in AP-mode.
  * @ssid_len: Length of SSID given in @ssid.
  * @hidden_ssid: The SSID of the current vif is hidden. Only valid in AP-mode.
@@ -296,6 +300,7 @@ struct ieee80211_bss_conf {
         bool arp_filter_enabled;
         bool qos;
         bool idle;
+        bool ps;
         u8 ssid[IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN];
         size_t ssid_len;
         bool hidden_ssid;