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authorArik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>2014-11-27 09:44:55 +0200
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2014-11-28 14:33:41 +0100
commitad932f046fbe9839479350e7b88082a7d1dea498 (patch)
treebde027962f8f061558db060102872d7de0435adf /include/net/regulatory.h
parent336004e29115e47253f7e7d007df9e1f9e73dcdd (diff)
downloadlinux-ad932f046fbe9839479350e7b88082a7d1dea498.tar.gz
cfg80211: leave invalid channels on regdomain change
When the regulatory settings change, some channels might become invalid.
Disconnect interfaces acting on these channels, after giving userspace
code a grace period to leave them.

This mode is currently opt-in, and not all interface operating modes are
supported for regulatory-enforcement checks. A wiphy that wishes to use
the new enforcement code must specify an appropriate regulatory flag,
and all its supported interface modes must be supported by the checking
code.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arikx.nemtsov@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
[fix some indentation, typos]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/regulatory.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/regulatory.h12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/regulatory.h b/include/net/regulatory.h
index dad7ab20a8cb..b776d72d84be 100644
--- a/include/net/regulatory.h
+++ b/include/net/regulatory.h
@@ -136,6 +136,17 @@ struct regulatory_request {
  *      otherwise initiating radiation is not allowed. This will enable the
  *      relaxations enabled under the CFG80211_REG_RELAX_NO_IR configuration
  *      option
+ * @REGULATORY_IGNORE_STALE_KICKOFF: the regulatory core will _not_ make sure
+ *	all interfaces on this wiphy reside on allowed channels. If this flag
+ *	is not set, upon a regdomain change, the interfaces are given a grace
+ *	period (currently 60 seconds) to disconnect or move to an allowed
+ *	channel. Interfaces on forbidden channels are forcibly disconnected.
+ *	Currently these types of interfaces are supported for enforcement:
+ *	NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC, NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION, NL80211_IFTYPE_AP,
+ *	NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN, NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR,
+ *	NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_CLIENT, NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO,
+ *	NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE. The flag will be set by default if a device
+ *	includes any modes unsupported for enforcement checking.
  */
 enum ieee80211_regulatory_flags {
 	REGULATORY_CUSTOM_REG			= BIT(0),
@@ -144,6 +155,7 @@ enum ieee80211_regulatory_flags {
 	REGULATORY_COUNTRY_IE_FOLLOW_POWER	= BIT(3),
 	REGULATORY_COUNTRY_IE_IGNORE		= BIT(4),
 	REGULATORY_ENABLE_RELAX_NO_IR           = BIT(5),
+	REGULATORY_IGNORE_STALE_KICKOFF         = BIT(6),
 };
 
 struct ieee80211_freq_range {