mac80211: Add capability to enable/disable beaconing

This patch adds a flag to notify drivers to start and stop
beaconing when needed, for example, during a scan run. Based
on Sujith's first patch to do the same, but now disables
beaconing for all virtual interfaces while scanning, has a
separate change flag and tracks user-space requests.

Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 634c08de6acb..35643c55827a 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -646,10 +646,12 @@ struct ieee80211_if_init_conf {
  * @IEEE80211_IFCC_BSSID: The BSSID changed.
  * @IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON: The beacon for this interface changed
  *      (currently AP and MESH only), use ieee80211_beacon_get().
+ * @IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON_ENABLED: The enable_beacon value changed.
  */
 enum ieee80211_if_conf_change {
-        IEEE80211_IFCC_BSSID    = BIT(0),
-        IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON   = BIT(1),
+        IEEE80211_IFCC_BSSID            = BIT(0),
+        IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON           = BIT(1),
+        IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON_ENABLED   = BIT(2),
 };
 
 /**
@@ -657,6 +659,8 @@ enum ieee80211_if_conf_change {
  *
  * @changed: parameters that have changed, see &enum ieee80211_if_conf_change.
  * @bssid: BSSID of the network we are associated to/creating.
+ * @enable_beacon: Indicates whether beacons can be sent.
+ *      This is valid only for AP/IBSS/MESH modes.
  *
  * This structure is passed to the config_interface() callback of
  * &struct ieee80211_hw.
@@ -664,6 +668,7 @@ enum ieee80211_if_conf_change {
 struct ieee80211_if_conf {
         u32 changed;
         const u8 *bssid;
+        bool enable_beacon;
 };
 
 /**