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mac80211: Copy tx'ed beacons to monitor mode
authorHelmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Wed, 9 Sep 2015 07:46:32 +0000 (09:46 +0200)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tue, 29 Sep 2015 13:56:33 +0000 (15:56 +0200)
commit35afa588624c4f9e19a0edfbb51769b59c90bb0d
tree49f7cb4995e98ef153d51068fccda7e5b3ccd852
parent5359d112dcb081fd7a5f2de287fa995f6ba0800c
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>
include/net/mac80211.h
net/mac80211/debugfs.c
net/mac80211/tx.c