On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 15:49 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote: > Some protocols need a more reliable connection to complete > successful in reasonable time. This patch adds a user-space > API to indicate the wireless driver that a critical protocol > is about to commence and when it is done, using nl80211 primitives > NL80211_CMD_CRIT_PROTOCOL_START and NL80211_CRIT_PROTOCOL_STOP. > > There can be only on critical protocol session started per > registered cfg80211 device. > > The driver can support this by implementing the cfg80211 callbacks > .crit_proto_start() and .crit_proto_stop(). Examples of protocols > that can benefit from this are DHCP, EAPOL, APIPA. Exactly how the > link can/should be made more reliable is up to the driver. Things > to consider are avoid scanning, no multi-channel operations, and > alter coexistence schemes. Applied. johannes -- 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
