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authorHolger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>2009-09-24 12:21:01 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-10-07 16:39:42 -0400
commit7c89606e24cdabaceb8ca9b3c7ab866c6bcc9e38 (patch)
treeb2f76700d27154479e5ee72211d1ab6a6275d00b /net/wireless
parent7976b4263cb05dc638297d35f2a42375090ebaff (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.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index eddab097435..e0ecc9f153d 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,
NLA_PUT_U16(msg, NL80211_BSS_BEACON_INTERVAL, res->beacon_interval);
NLA_PUT_U16(msg, NL80211_BSS_CAPABILITY, res->capability);
NLA_PUT_U32(msg, NL80211_BSS_FREQUENCY, res->channel->center_freq);
+ NLA_PUT_U32(msg, NL80211_BSS_SEEN_MS_AGO,
+ jiffies_to_msecs(jiffies - intbss->ts));
switch (rdev->wiphy.signal_type) {
case CFG80211_SIGNAL_TYPE_MBM: