On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 17:07 +0530, Pandiyarajan Pitchaimuthu wrote:
> In AP mode, when a station requests connection to an AP and if the
> request is failed for particular reason, userspace is notified about the
> failure through NL80211_CMD_CONN_FAILED command. Reason for the failure
> is sent through the attribute NL80211_ATTR_CONN_FAILED_REASON.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pandiyarajan Pitchaimuthu <c_ppitch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/nl80211.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> include/net/cfg80211.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> net/wireless/mlme.c | 11 +++++++++++
> net/wireless/nl80211.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> net/wireless/nl80211.h | 5 +++++
> 5 files changed, 88 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/nl80211.h b/include/linux/nl80211.h
> index 2f38788..55c01d0 100644
> --- a/include/linux/nl80211.h
> +++ b/include/linux/nl80211.h
> @@ -565,6 +565,11 @@
> * %NL80211_ATTR_IFINDEX is now on %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ with
> * %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_CHANNEL_TYPE.
> *
> + * @NL80211_CMD_CONN_FAILED: connection request to an AP failed; used to
> + * notify userspace that AP has rejected the connection request from a
> + * station, due to particular reason. %NL80211_ATTR_CONN_FAILED_REASON
> + * is used for this.
> + *
> * @NL80211_CMD_MAX: highest used command number
> * @__NL80211_CMD_AFTER_LAST: internal use
> */
> @@ -708,6 +713,8 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
>
> NL80211_CMD_CH_SWITCH_NOTIFY,
>
> + NL80211_CMD_CONN_FAILED,
> +
> /* add new commands above here */
>
> /* used to define NL80211_CMD_MAX below */
> @@ -1251,6 +1258,10 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
> * was used to provide the hint. For the different types of
> * allowed user regulatory hints see nl80211_user_reg_hint_type.
> *
> + * @NL80211_ATTR_CONN_FAILED_REASON: The reason for which AP has rejected
> + * the connection request from a station. nl80211_connect_failed_reason
> + * enum has different reasons of connection failure.
> + *
> * @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined
> * @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use
> */
> @@ -1506,6 +1517,8 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
>
> NL80211_ATTR_USER_REG_HINT_TYPE,
>
> + NL80211_ATTR_CONN_FAILED_REASON,
> +
> /* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
>
> __NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,
> @@ -3023,4 +3036,10 @@ enum nl80211_probe_resp_offload_support_attr {
> NL80211_PROBE_RESP_OFFLOAD_SUPPORT_80211U = 1<<3,
> };
>
> +/* AP mode - sta's connection request failed reasons */
> +enum nl80211_connect_failed_reason {
Kernel-doc descriptions here would be nice.
Otherwise looks fine, thanks.
johannes
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