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Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/cfg80211.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/cfg80211.h | 26 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h index 3de1c39d03e5..150c0ee714c2 100644 --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h @@ -3064,6 +3064,32 @@ void cfg80211_roamed(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *resp_ie, size_t resp_ie_len, gfp_t gfp); /** + * cfg80211_roamed_bss - notify cfg80211 of roaming + * + * @dev: network device + * @bss: entry of bss to which STA got roamed + * @req_ie: association request IEs (maybe be %NULL) + * @req_ie_len: association request IEs length + * @resp_ie: association response IEs (may be %NULL) + * @resp_ie_len: assoc response IEs length + * @gfp: allocation flags + * + * This is just a wrapper to notify cfg80211 of roaming event with driver + * passing bss to avoid a race in timeout of the bss entry. It should be + * called by the underlying driver whenever it roamed from one AP to another + * while connected. Drivers which have roaming implemented in firmware + * may use this function to avoid a race in bss entry timeout where the bss + * entry of the new AP is seen in the driver, but gets timed out by the time + * it is accessed in __cfg80211_roamed() due to delay in scheduling + * rdev->event_work. In case of any failures, the reference is released + * either in cfg80211_roamed_bss() or in __cfg80211_romed(), Otherwise, + * it will be released while diconneting from the current bss. + */ +void cfg80211_roamed_bss(struct net_device *dev, struct cfg80211_bss *bss, + const u8 *req_ie, size_t req_ie_len, + const u8 *resp_ie, size_t resp_ie_len, gfp_t gfp); + +/** * cfg80211_disconnected - notify cfg80211 that connection was dropped * * @dev: network device |