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add offchannel radar chain support

Lorenzo Bianconi linux-wireless 2 versions – New

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  1. v2 Latest6 patches 0 repliesNew
  2. v14 patches 0 repliesSuperseded

Changes in v2 from the cover letter

- introduce offchanel chain ownership through offchan_radar_wdev pointer
- spilt patch 1/5 in cfg80211 and mac80211 part
- move cac work from driver code to cfg80211

Patches in v2 No applies recorded yet

#Subject and filesSizeRepliesApplied
1/6cfg80211: introduce set_radar_offchan callbackinclude/net/cfg80211.h net/wireless/rdev-ops.h net/wireless/trace.h+48 -00 replies
2/6mac80211: introduce set_radar_offchan callbackinclude/net/mac80211.h net/mac80211/cfg.c+23 -00 replies
3/6cfg80211: introduce the capability to configure offchannel CAC detectioninclude/uapi/linux/nl80211.h net/wireless/ap.c net/wireless/core.c +3 more+74 -60 replies
4/6cfg80211: introduce cfg80211_cac_offchan_event routineinclude/net/cfg80211.h net/wireless/mlme.c+68 -20 replies
5/6cfg80211: introduce offchannel cac delayed worknet/wireless/core.c net/wireless/core.h net/wireless/mlme.c+25 -00 replies
6/6cfg80211: introduce NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_RADAR_OFFCHAN feature flaginclude/uapi/linux/nl80211.h net/wireless/mlme.c+8 -00 replies

Reviews trailers per patch

None of the 6 patches has a Reviewed-by or Acked-by.

PatchEvelyn Tsai
1/6T-b
2/6T-b
3/6
4/6
5/6
6/6

Trailers given in replies are filled; those carried in the patches from earlier versions are outlined with dashes.

Read the v2 thread

Cover letter [PATCH v2 mac80211-next 0/6] add offchannel radar chain support

Introduce the capability to configure a dedicated chain available for radar detection on some hw (e.g. mt7915). This chain can't be used to transmit or receive frames and it is bounded to a running wdev.
Offchannel radar/CAC detection allows to avoid the CAC downtime switching to a different channel during CAC detection on the selected radar channel. hostapd will implement the logic to select and configure the monitored channel.

Changes since v1:
- introduce offchanel chain ownership through offchan_radar_wdev pointer
- spilt patch 1/5 in cfg80211 and mac80211 part
- move cac work from driver code to cfg80211

Changes since rfc:
- rely on NL80211_CMD_RADAR_DETECT netlink msg to configure offchannel radar chain

Lorenzo Bianconi (6):
cfg80211: introduce set_radar_offchan callback
mac80211: introduce set_radar_offchan callback
cfg80211: introduce the capability to configure offchannel CAC
detection
cfg80211: introduce cfg80211_cac_offchan_event routine
cfg80211: introduce offchannel cac delayed work
cfg80211: introduce NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_RADAR_OFFCHAN feature flag

 include/net/cfg80211.h       |  24 +++++++
 include/net/mac80211.h       |  10 +++
 include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h |  13 ++++
 net/mac80211/cfg.c           |  13 ++++
 net/wireless/ap.c            |   2 +
 net/wireless/core.c          |   2 +
 net/wireless/core.h          |  15 +++++
 net/wireless/mlme.c          | 117 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 net/wireless/nl80211.c       |  17 +++--
 net/wireless/rdev-ops.h      |  18 ++++++
 net/wireless/trace.h         |  19 ++++++
 11 files changed, 244 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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