cfg80211: Advertise extended capabilities per interface type to userspace

The driver extended capabilities may differ for different
interface types which the userspace needs to know (for
example the fine timing measurement initiator and responder
bits might differ for a station and AP). Add a new nl80211
attribute to provide extended capabilities per interface type
to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Vidyullatha Kanchanapally <vkanchan@qti.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Git-commit: 019ae3a918811715192b22c400ac78d54acc26a9
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next.git
CRs-fixed: 1030694
Change-Id: I816b21d8433aea9407a14a8c8a5098701ee53b8c
[pkushwah@codeaurora.org: backport to 4.4-This commit includes the
changes from following commits in include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h to compile
for msm-4.4.
38de03d2a28925b489c11546804e2f5418cc17a4 :
nl80211: add feature for BSS selection support.
17b942478643c5a90c06d978479bd326040bfa19 :
cfg80211: allow userspace to specify client P2P PS support.
9b95fe59b18bcc891a6c60ae11d725c9c679574b :
nl80211: add missing kerneldoc for new *_PAD attributes.
2dad624e6dd65c6048a9bbe0e16559fce182c87c :
wireless: use nla_put_u64_64bit().]
Signed-off-by: Purushottam Kushwaha <pkushwah@codeaurora.org>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
index 25627f584405..b5323800eeb5 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -1764,8 +1764,9 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
  *	over all channels.
  *
  * @NL80211_ATTR_SCHED_SCAN_DELAY: delay before the first cycle of a
- *	scheduled scan (or a WoWLAN net-detect scan) is started, u32
- *	in seconds.
+ *	scheduled scan is started.  Or the delay before a WoWLAN
+ *	net-detect scan is started, counting from the moment the
+ *	system is suspended.  This value is a u32, in seconds.
 
  * @NL80211_ATTR_REG_INDOOR: flag attribute, if set indicates that the device
  *      is operating in an indoor environment.
@@ -1782,11 +1783,26 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
  *	thus it must not specify the number of iterations, only the interval
  *	between scans. The scan plans are executed sequentially.
  *	Each scan plan is a nested attribute of &enum nl80211_sched_scan_plan.
- *
  * @NL80211_ATTR_PBSS: flag attribute. If set it means operate
  *	in a PBSS. Specified in %NL80211_CMD_CONNECT to request
  *	connecting to a PCP, and in %NL80211_CMD_START_AP to start
  *	a PCP instead of AP. Relevant for DMG networks only.
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_BSS_SELECT: nested attribute for driver supporting the
+ *	BSS selection feature. When used with %NL80211_CMD_GET_WIPHY it contains
+ *	attributes according &enum nl80211_bss_select_attr to indicate what
+ *	BSS selection behaviours are supported. When used with %NL80211_CMD_CONNECT
+ *	it contains the behaviour-specific attribute containing the parameters for
+ *	BSS selection to be done by driver and/or firmware.
+ *
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_STA_SUPPORT_P2P_PS: whether P2P PS mechanism supported
+ *	or not. u8, one of the values of &enum nl80211_sta_p2p_ps_status
+ *
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_PAD: attribute used for padding for 64-bit alignment
+ *
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_IFTYPE_EXT_CAPA: Nested attribute of the following attributes:
+ *	%NL80211_ATTR_IFTYPE, %NL80211_ATTR_EXT_CAPA,
+ *	%NL80211_ATTR_EXT_CAPA_MASK, to specify the extended capabilities per
+ *	interface type.
  *
  * @NUM_NL80211_ATTR: total number of nl80211_attrs available
  * @NL80211_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number currently defined
@@ -2164,6 +2180,14 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
 
 	NL80211_ATTR_PBSS,
 
+	NL80211_ATTR_BSS_SELECT,
+
+	NL80211_ATTR_STA_SUPPORT_P2P_PS,
+
+	NL80211_ATTR_PAD,
+
+	NL80211_ATTR_IFTYPE_EXT_CAPA,
+
 	/* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
 
 	__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,