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authorDenis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>2018-03-26 12:52:42 -0500
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2018-03-29 13:44:19 +0200
commit2576a9ace47eba28a682d249d1d6402f891808c9 (patch)
treeb45b4cfccad58ef11f8875b2fcf317f41deb03c7 /include/uapi
parent6a671a50f8199b3e1fe49fa8afff0fc8335da79c (diff)
nl80211: Implement TX of control port frames
This commit implements the TX side of NL80211_CMD_CONTROL_PORT_FRAME. Userspace provides the raw EAPoL frame using NL80211_ATTR_FRAME. Userspace should also provide the destination address and the protocol type to use when sending the frame. This is used to implement TX of Pre-authentication frames. If CONTROL_PORT_ETHERTYPE_NO_ENCRYPT is specified, then the driver will be asked not to encrypt the outgoing frame. A new EXT_FEATURE flag is introduced so that nl80211 code can check whether a given wiphy has capability to pass EAPoL frames over nl80211. Signed-off-by: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
index 6a3cc7a635b5..3167d6f7fc68 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -5024,6 +5024,8 @@ enum nl80211_feature_flags {
* channel change triggered by radar detection event.
* No need to start CAC from user-space, no need to react to
* "radar detected" event.
+ * @NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CONTROL_PORT_OVER_NL80211: Driver supports sending and
+ * receiving control port frames over nl80211 instead of the netdevice.
*
* @NUM_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES: number of extended features.
* @MAX_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES: highest extended feature index.
@@ -5055,6 +5057,7 @@ enum nl80211_ext_feature_index {
NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_LOW_POWER_SCAN,
NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_HIGH_ACCURACY_SCAN,
NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_DFS_OFFLOAD,
+ NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CONTROL_PORT_OVER_NL80211,
/* add new features before the definition below */
NUM_NL80211_EXT_FEATURES,