mac80211/cfg80211: HT capabilities for NEW_STA

Allow userspace (e.g., hostapd) to set HT capabilities for associated
STAs. This is based on a patch from Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> (only
the NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY for NEW_STA part is included here).

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 47542ee01c57..4d6c02afd6f5 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ static struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NL80211_ATTR_MAX+1] __read_mostly = {
         [NL80211_ATTR_BSS_CTS_PROT] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
         [NL80211_ATTR_BSS_SHORT_PREAMBLE] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
         [NL80211_ATTR_BSS_SHORT_SLOT_TIME] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
+
+        [NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY] = { .type = NLA_BINARY,
+                                         .len = NL80211_HT_CAPABILITY_LEN },
 };
 
 /* message building helper */
@@ -1129,6 +1132,10 @@ static int nl80211_set_station(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
                 params.listen_interval =
                     nla_get_u16(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_STA_LISTEN_INTERVAL]);
 
+        if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY])
+                params.ht_capa =
+                        nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY]);
+
         if (parse_station_flags(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_STA_FLAGS],
                                 &params.station_flags))
                 return -EINVAL;
@@ -1192,6 +1199,9 @@ static int nl80211_new_station(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
         params.listen_interval =
                 nla_get_u16(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_STA_LISTEN_INTERVAL]);
         params.aid = nla_get_u16(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_STA_AID]);
+        if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY])
+                params.ht_capa =
+                        nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY]);
 
         if (parse_station_flags(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_STA_FLAGS],
                                 &params.station_flags))