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From: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Subject: [RFC V2 0/3] nl80211: allow configuration of BSS selection
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 10:49:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1452678583-20086-1-git-send-email-arend@broadcom.com> (raw)

This patch series adds support for configuration of BSS selection done by
the driver and/or firmware. It allows user-space to pass selection criteria
with the NL80211_CMD_CONNECT using NL80211_ATTR_BSS_SELECT. When user-space
does provide this attribute and no explicit BSSID is provided it will pass
the BSS selection criteria to the driver if the driver supports it.

When multiple BSS-es are found belonging to the same ESS, ie. Infra-BSS with
same SSID, the criteria can be used to select a BSS. The criteria defined are:

1. RSSI based selection.
2. Band selection, RSSI based selection.
3. RSSI adjustment in given band, RSSI based selection.

V2:
 - incorporate comments from Johannes Berg (may have missed some).
 - split nl80211 patch in two separate patches.

Arend van Spriel (3):
  nl80211: add extended feature for BSS selection support
  nl80211: add bss selection attribute to CONNECT command
  brcmfmac: add support for nl80211 BSS_SELECT feature

 drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++
 drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/common.c   | 38 ++++++----
 drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.h     |  1 +
 include/net/cfg80211.h                             | 34 +++++++++
 include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h                       | 52 +++++++++++++
 net/wireless/core.c                                |  5 ++
 net/wireless/nl80211.c                             | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 7 files changed, 264 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

-- 
1.9.1


             reply	other threads:[~2016-01-13  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-13  9:49 Arend van Spriel [this message]
2016-01-13  9:49 ` [RFC V2 1/3] nl80211: add extended feature for BSS selection support Arend van Spriel
2016-01-14 11:00   ` Johannes Berg
2016-01-13  9:49 ` [RFC V2 2/3] nl80211: add bss selection attribute to CONNECT command Arend van Spriel
2016-01-14 11:10   ` Johannes Berg
2016-01-14 11:12     ` Johannes Berg
2016-01-18  9:34     ` Arend van Spriel
2016-01-19 13:20       ` Johannes Berg
2016-01-19 22:33         ` Arend van Spriel
2016-01-20  9:30           ` Johannes Berg
2016-01-20 14:02           ` Johannes Berg
2016-01-20 21:53             ` Arend van Spriel
2016-01-21  6:57               ` Peer, Ilan
2016-01-13  9:49 ` [RFC V2 3/3] brcmfmac: add support for nl80211 BSS_SELECT feature Arend van Spriel
2016-01-14  9:15 ` [RFC V2 0/3] nl80211: allow configuration of BSS selection Arend van Spriel
2016-01-14  9:20   ` Johannes Berg

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