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cfg80211: support immediate reconnect request hint

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There are cases where it's necessary to disconnect, but an
immediate reconnection is desired. Support a hint to userspace
that this is the case, by including a new attribute in the
deauth or disassoc event.

Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/iwlwifi.20201206145305.58d33941fb9d.I0e7168c205c7949529c8e3b86f3c9b12c01a7017@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Johannes Berg
2020-12-06 14:54:42 +02:00
parent a5a55032ea
commit 3bb02143ff
7 changed files with 55 additions and 29 deletions
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include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
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@@ -2535,6 +2535,10 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
* This is a u8 attribute that encapsulates one of the values from
* &enum nl80211_sae_pwe_mechanism.
*
* @NL80211_ATTR_RECONNECT_REQUESTED: flag attribute, used with deauth and
* disassoc events to indicate that an immediate reconnect to the AP
* is desired.
*
* @NUM_NL80211_ATTR: total number of nl80211_attrs available
* @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined
* @__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use
@@ -3026,6 +3030,8 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
NL80211_ATTR_SAE_PWE,
NL80211_ATTR_RECONNECT_REQUESTED,
/* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,