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, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
index b84126491ab1..ab369e2a5282 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ struct ieee80211_if_managed {
         struct work_struct work;
         struct work_struct monitor_work;
         struct work_struct chswitch_work;
-        struct work_struct beacon_loss_work;
+        struct work_struct beacon_connection_loss_work;
 
         unsigned long probe_timeout;
         int probe_send_count;
@@ -1156,7 +1156,7 @@ void ieee80211_send_nullfunc(struct ieee80211_local *local,
                              int powersave);
 void ieee80211_sta_rx_notify(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
                              struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr);
-void ieee80211_beacon_loss_work(struct work_struct *work);
+void ieee80211_beacon_connection_loss_work(struct work_struct *work);
 
 void ieee80211_wake_queues_by_reason(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
                                      enum queue_stop_reason reason);