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| author | Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> | 2009-09-24 06:21:01 -0400 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-10-07 16:39:42 -0400 |
| commit | 7c89606e24cdabaceb8ca9b3c7ab866c6bcc9e38 (patch) | |
| tree | b2f76700d27154479e5ee72211d1ab6a6275d00b /net/wireless | |
| parent | 7976b4263cb05dc638297d35f2a42375090ebaff (diff) | |
nl80211: report age of scan results
Linux keeps scan results up to 15 seconds. This can be a problem for fast
moving clients: they get back stale data. But if the kernel reports the age
of the BSS items, then user-space can simply weed out old entries by itself.
Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/nl80211.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index eddab097435c..e0ecc9f153d4 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c | |||
| @@ -3105,6 +3105,8 @@ static int nl80211_send_bss(struct sk_buff *msg, u32 pid, u32 seq, int flags, | |||
| 3105 | NLA_PUT_U16(msg, NL80211_BSS_BEACON_INTERVAL, res->beacon_interval); | 3105 | NLA_PUT_U16(msg, NL80211_BSS_BEACON_INTERVAL, res->beacon_interval); |
| 3106 | NLA_PUT_U16(msg, NL80211_BSS_CAPABILITY, res->capability); | 3106 | NLA_PUT_U16(msg, NL80211_BSS_CAPABILITY, res->capability); |
| 3107 | NLA_PUT_U32(msg, NL80211_BSS_FREQUENCY, res->channel->center_freq); | 3107 | NLA_PUT_U32(msg, NL80211_BSS_FREQUENCY, res->channel->center_freq); |
| 3108 | NLA_PUT_U32(msg, NL80211_BSS_SEEN_MS_AGO, | ||
| 3109 | jiffies_to_msecs(jiffies - intbss->ts)); | ||
| 3108 | 3110 | ||
| 3109 | switch (rdev->wiphy.signal_type) { | 3111 | switch (rdev->wiphy.signal_type) { |
| 3110 | case CFG80211_SIGNAL_TYPE_MBM: | 3112 | case CFG80211_SIGNAL_TYPE_MBM: |