This patchsets introduced new NL command and api to support
configuring rssi for the connected stations and api to notify
userspace application upon crossing the configured threshold.
This will be useful for the application which requires
station's current signal strength change information.
Monitoring station's signal strength through station dump command
will unnecessarily increase the system overhead. This event based
mechanism will reduce the system overhead and helps application to
take a decision for the station for which event received.
Tamizh chelvam (2):
cfg80211: Add support to configure station specific RSSI threshold
for AP mode
mac80211: Implement API to configure station specific rssi threshold
v2:
* Combined patchset 2 and 3 as single patch and addressed Johannes comments.
include/net/cfg80211.h | 39 ++++++++++
include/net/mac80211.h | 7 ++
include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 21 ++++++
net/mac80211/cfg.c | 103 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
net/mac80211/rx.c | 56 +++++++++++++-
net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 1 +
net/mac80211/sta_info.h | 30 ++++++++
net/wireless/nl80211.c | 169 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
net/wireless/rdev-ops.h | 13 ++++
net/wireless/trace.h | 22 ++++++
10 files changed, 433 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
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