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Commit 5336fa88 authored by Simon Wunderlich's avatar Simon Wunderlich Committed by Johannes Berg
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nl80211/cfg80211: enable DFS for IBSS mode


To use DFS in IBSS mode, userspace is required to react to radar events.
It can inform nl80211 that it is capable of doing so by adding a
NL80211_ATTR_HANDLE_DFS attribute when joining the IBSS.

This attribute is supplied to let the kernelspace know that the
userspace application can and will handle radar events, e.g. by
intiating channel switches to a valid channel. DFS channels may
only be used if this attribute is supplied and the driver supports
it. Driver support will be checked even if a channel without DFS
will be initially joined, as a DFS channel may be chosen later.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
[fix attribute name in commit message]
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
parent 687da132
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