On Thursday, March 21, 2013 01:06:34 PM Vladimir Kondratiev wrote: > Allow to implement P2P find phase in the driver/firmware. > > Offload scheme designed as follows: > > - Driver provide methods start_p2p_find and stop_p2p_find in the cfg80211_ops; > - Driver indicate firmware or driver responds to the probe requests by setting > feature NL80211_FEATURE_P2P_PROBE_RESP_OFFLOAD > - wpa_supplicant analyses methods supported to discover p2p offload support; > - wpa_supplicant analyses feature flags to discover p2p probe response > offload support; > to perform p2p scan, wpa_supplicant: > - perform legacy scan, through driver's cfg80211_ops 'scan' method > - configure rx management filter to get probe-request and probe-response frames > - start p2p find via driver's cfg80211_ops start_p2p_find method > - driver start p2p find with hardware and notify wpa_supplicant with > cfg80211_p2p_find_notify_start() > - driver/firmware toggle search/listen states. Received probe-request and > probe-response frames passed to the wpa_supplicant via cfg80211_rx_mgmt > - when wpa_supplicant wants to stop p2p find, it calls driver's > cfg80211_ops stop_p2p_find method. Alternatively, driver/firmware may decide > to stop p2p find. In all cases, driver notifies wpa_supplicant using > cfg80211_p2p_find_notify_end() > > All driver to user space communication done through nl80211 layer. > > Offloaded P2P find does not support variations like progressive scan. > > Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > include/net/cfg80211.h | 60 +++++++++++++++ > include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 13 ++++ > net/wireless/nl80211.c | 167 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > net/wireless/rdev-ops.h | 19 +++++ > net/wireless/trace.h | 34 +++++++++ > 5 files changed, 293 insertions(+) > Hi Johannes, Could you please comment on this patch status? I was under impression I did all as we discussed and it is going to be merged, but maybe I missed something. I was on long vacation. Do you want me to rebase and resend? Thanks, Vladimir -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
