nl80211: New notification to discover mesh peer candidates.

Notify userspace when a beacon/presp is received from a suitable mesh
peer candidate for whom no sta information exists.  Userspace can then
decide to create a sta info for the candidate.  If userspace is not
ready to authenticate the peer right away, it can create the sta info
with the authenticated flag unset and set it later.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.h b/net/wireless/nl80211.h
index dcac5cd6f017..f2af6955a665 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.h
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.h
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ void nl80211_send_disconnected(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
                                struct net_device *netdev, u16 reason,
                                const u8 *ie, size_t ie_len, bool from_ap);
 
+void nl80211_send_new_peer_candidate(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
+                                     struct net_device *netdev,
+                                     const u8 *macaddr, const u8* ie, u8 ie_len,
+                                     gfp_t gfp);
 void
 nl80211_michael_mic_failure(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
                             struct net_device *netdev, const u8 *addr,