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authorJouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>2010-01-06 16:19:24 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-01-12 13:51:28 -0500
commit34a6eddbabd704b3c7dae9362234552267573be2 (patch)
tree661184452aa597e4f1034561b3ec9b267ad2e196 /include/net/cfg80211.h
parent80a112ffe8dbada25f3780ecc4beebf23451d755 (diff)
cfg80211: Store IEs from both Beacon and Probe Response frames
Store information elements from Beacon and Probe Response frames in separate buffers to allow both sets to be made available through nl80211. This allows user space applications to get access to IEs from Beacon frames even if we have received Probe Response frames from the BSS. Previously, the IEs from Probe Response frames would have overridden the IEs from Beacon frames. This feature is of somewhat limited use since most protocols include the same (or extended) information in Probe Response frames. However, there are couple of exceptions where the IEs from Beacon frames could be of some use: TIM IE is only included in Beacon frames (and it would be needed to figure out the DTIM period used in the BSS) and at least some implementations of Wireless Provisioning Services seem to include the full IE only in Beacon frames). The new BSS attribute for scan results is added to allow both the IE sets to be delivered. This is done in a way that maintains the previously used behavior for applications that are not aware of the new NL80211_BSS_BEACON_IES attribute. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/cfg80211.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/cfg80211.h12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
index 0d734413b5f..2af52704e67 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -626,8 +626,14 @@ enum cfg80211_signal_type {
* @beacon_interval: the beacon interval as from the frame
* @capability: the capability field in host byte order
* @information_elements: the information elements (Note that there
- * is no guarantee that these are well-formed!)
+ * is no guarantee that these are well-formed!); this is a pointer to
+ * either the beacon_ies or proberesp_ies depending on whether Probe
+ * Response frame has been received
* @len_information_elements: total length of the information elements
+ * @beacon_ies: the information elements from the last Beacon frame
+ * @len_beacon_ies: total length of the beacon_ies
+ * @proberesp_ies: the information elements from the last Probe Response frame
+ * @len_proberesp_ies: total length of the proberesp_ies
* @signal: signal strength value (type depends on the wiphy's signal_type)
* @free_priv: function pointer to free private data
* @priv: private area for driver use, has at least wiphy->bss_priv_size bytes
@@ -641,6 +647,10 @@ struct cfg80211_bss {
u16 capability;
u8 *information_elements;
size_t len_information_elements;
+ u8 *beacon_ies;
+ size_t len_beacon_ies;
+ u8 *proberesp_ies;
+ size_t len_proberesp_ies;
s32 signal;