mac80211: Add support for connection monitor in hardware

This patch is based on a RFC patch by Kalle Valo.

The wl1271 has a feature which handles the connection monitor logic
in hardware, basically sending periodically nullfunc frames and reporting
to the host if AP is lost, after attempting to recover by sending
probe-requests to the AP.

Add support to mac80211 by adding a new flag IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR
which prevents conn_mon_timer from triggering during idle periods, and
prevents sending probe-requests to the AP if beacon-loss is indicated by the
hardware.

Cc: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 936bc410d061..d14226f29ffc 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -954,6 +954,11 @@ enum ieee80211_tkip_key_type {
  *      Hardware can provide ack status reports of Tx frames to
  *      the stack.
  *
+ * @IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR:
+ *      The hardware performs its own connection monitoring, including
+ *      periodic keep-alives to the AP and probing the AP on beacon loss.
+ *      When this flag is set, signaling beacon-loss will cause an immediate
+ *      change to disassociated state.
  */
 enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
         IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL                   = 1<<0,
@@ -975,6 +980,7 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
         IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_SMPS              = 1<<16,
         IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_UAPSD                     = 1<<17,
         IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS              = 1<<18,
+        IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR                 = 1<<19,
 };
 
 /**
@@ -2364,12 +2370,26 @@ void ieee80211_sta_block_awake(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
  *
  * @vif: &struct ieee80211_vif pointer from the add_interface callback.
  *
- * When beacon filtering is enabled with IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTERING and
- * IEEE80211_CONF_PS is set, the driver needs to inform whenever the
+ * When beacon filtering is enabled with %IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTERING and
+ * %IEEE80211_CONF_PS is set, the driver needs to inform whenever the
  * hardware is not receiving beacons with this function.
  */
 void ieee80211_beacon_loss(struct ieee80211_vif *vif);
 
+/**
+ * ieee80211_connection_loss - inform hardware has lost connection to the AP
+ *
+ * @vif: &struct ieee80211_vif pointer from the add_interface callback.
+ *
+ * When beacon filtering is enabled with %IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTERING, and
+ * %IEEE80211_CONF_PS and %IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR are set, the driver
+ * needs to inform if the connection to the AP has been lost.
+ *
+ * This function will cause immediate change to disassociated state,
+ * without connection recovery attempts.
+ */
+void ieee80211_connection_loss(struct ieee80211_vif *vif);
+
 /* Rate control API */
 
 /**