The IEEE 802.11p amendment defines a procedure for data frames transmission by an STA that is not a member of a BSS. Such data frames are defined as being transmitted "outside the context of a BSS" (this is allowed only if the MIB variable dot11OCBActivated is true). This patchset adds new interface type (NL80211_IFTYPE_OCB) for an STA in the OCB mode. When an OCB mode is used, all the STAs communicate with each other without the need for a coordinator. In such case no beacons are sent and BSSID is set to wildcard (all 1's). Every STA receives all frames from every STA in range and transmits to every STA tuned to the same channel. The communication is taking place in a reserved frequency band (5.9 GHz). Rostislav Lisovy (2): cfg80211: Add channel flags limiting availability to OCB mode only mac80211: Add new interface type for OCB mode include/net/cfg80211.h | 2 + include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 8 +++ net/mac80211/Makefile | 3 +- net/mac80211/cfg.c | 1 + net/mac80211/chan.c | 2 + net/mac80211/driver-ops.h | 3 +- net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h | 38 ++++++++++++++ net/mac80211/iface.c | 28 +++++++++++ net/mac80211/ocb.c | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ net/mac80211/util.c | 5 ++ net/wireless/nl80211.c | 3 ++ net/wireless/reg.c | 2 + net/wireless/util.c | 1 + 13 files changed, 209 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 net/mac80211/ocb.c -- 2.0.0.rc0 -- 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
