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Re: Re: Re: Re: [PATCH] Added 2 new Control Frames ( Beamforming Report Poll & VHT NDP Announcement) defined in 802.11ac [EDT]

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Dear Johannes,

Since git send-email is blocked, I am putting the contents of my patch below.
As requested, I am removing unnecessary contents. Thanks for helping me.

>From 69340d63e0c63c1ae75cdb62bf4bd04a9c961a1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rahul <rahul.jain@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 10:21:48 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Added 2 new Control Frames ( Beamforming Report Poll & VHT
 NDP Announcement) defined in 802.11ac.

Beamforming Report Poll frame - This frame is used to retrieve additional
feedback from the second and subsequent beamformees. The beamformer must use
the Beamforming Report Poll frame. In Beamforming Report Poll, the Feedback
Segment Retransmission Bitmap field indicates the requested feedback segments
of a VHT Compressed Beamforming report.

VHT Null Data Packet (NDP) Announcement - This frame is used by Beamformers to
gain control of the channel and identiy beformees. Beamformees will respond to
the NDP Announcement, while all other stations will simply defer channel access
until the sounding sequence is complete

Signed-off-by: Rahul Jain <rahul.jain@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/ieee80211.h |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/ieee80211.h b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
index b9c7897..ca38616 100644
--- a/include/linux/ieee80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@
 #define IEEE80211_STYPE_ACTION		0x00D0
 
 /* control */
+#define IEEE80211_STYPE_BEAMFORM_POLL	0x0040
+#define IEEE80211_STYPE_VHT_NDP_ANNOUCE	0x0050
 #define IEEE80211_STYPE_CTL_EXT		0x0060
 #define IEEE80211_STYPE_BACK_REQ	0x0080
 #define IEEE80211_STYPE_BACK		0x0090
-- 
1.7.9.5

Thanks
-Rahul Jain
EP-FEDC771DF4FF48A9829CB85254E29FD3 

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