cfg80211: add scan flag to indicate its priority

Add NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_LOW_PRIORITY flag support. It tells drivers
that this is a low priority scan request, so that they can take
necessary action.
Drivers need to advertise low priority scan capability during
registration.

Signed-off-by: Sam Leffler <sleffler@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
index 4d0b49ee4c2c..c68e15e41321 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -3048,6 +3048,7 @@ enum nl80211_ap_sme_features {
  * @NL80211_FEATURE_SAE: This driver supports simultaneous authentication of
  *      equals (SAE) with user space SME (NL80211_CMD_AUTHENTICATE) in station
  *      mode
+ * @NL80211_FEATURE_LOW_PRIORITY_SCAN: This driver supports low priority scan
  */
 enum nl80211_feature_flags {
         NL80211_FEATURE_SK_TX_STATUS                    = 1 << 0,
@@ -3056,6 +3057,7 @@ enum nl80211_feature_flags {
         NL80211_FEATURE_CELL_BASE_REG_HINTS             = 1 << 3,
         NL80211_FEATURE_P2P_DEVICE_NEEDS_CHANNEL        = 1 << 4,
         NL80211_FEATURE_SAE                             = 1 << 5,
+        NL80211_FEATURE_LOW_PRIORITY_SCAN               = 1 << 6,
 };
 
 /**
@@ -3096,9 +3098,11 @@ enum nl80211_connect_failed_reason {
  * Scan request control flags are used to control the handling
  * of NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN and NL80211_CMD_START_SCHED_SCAN
  * requests.
- * (will be filled)
+ *
+ * @NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_LOW_PRIORITY: scan request has low priority
+ */
 enum nl80211_scan_flags {
+        NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_LOW_PRIORITY                  = 1<<0,
 };
- */
 
 #endif /* __LINUX_NL80211_H */