mac80211: Copy tx'ed beacons to monitor mode
When debugging wireless powersave issues on the AP side it's quite helpful to see our own beacons that are transmitted by the hardware/driver. However, this is not that easy since beacons don't pass through the regular TX queues. Preferably drivers would call ieee80211_tx_status also for tx'ed beacons but that's not always possible. Hence, just send a copy of each beacon generated by ieee80211_beacon_get_tim to monitor devices when they are getting fetched by the driver. Also add a HW flag IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_TX_STATUS that can be used by drivers to indicate that they report TX status for beacons. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> (with a fix from Christian Lamparted rolled in) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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@@ -1898,6 +1898,9 @@ struct ieee80211_txq {
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* @IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_AMSDU_IN_AMPDU: The driver supports receiving A-MSDUs
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* within A-MPDU.
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*
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* @IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_TX_STATUS: The device/driver provides TX status
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* for sent beacons.
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*
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* @NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS: number of hardware flags, used for sizing arrays
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*/
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enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
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@@ -1932,6 +1935,7 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
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IEEE80211_HW_SINGLE_SCAN_ON_ALL_BANDS,
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IEEE80211_HW_TDLS_WIDER_BW,
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IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_AMSDU_IN_AMPDU,
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IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_TX_STATUS,
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/* keep last, obviously */
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NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS
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