nl80211: Introduce scan flags to emphasize requested scan behavior
authorSunil Dutt <usdutt@qti.qualcomm.com>
Thu, 25 Jan 2018 15:13:37 +0000 (17:13 +0200)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 11:48:30 +0000 (12:48 +0100)
commit5037a00992e5fcb3d8509964313565a3dab6697c
treeb300e0037876ff97b1cbd658e67e171df7793132
parent6335698e24ec11e1324b916177da6721df724dd8
nl80211: Introduce scan flags to emphasize requested scan behavior

This commit defines new scan flags (LOW_SPAN, LOW_POWER, HIGH_LATENCY)
to emphasize the requested scan behavior for the driver. These flags
are optional and are mutually exclusive. The implementation of the
respective functionality can be driver/hardware specific.

These flags can be used to control the compromise between how long
a scan takes, how much power it uses, and high accurate/complete
the scan is in finding the BSSs.

Signed-off-by: Sunil Dutt <usdutt@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
net/wireless/nl80211.c