ath10k: advertise force AP scan feature
authorVasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Tue, 15 Mar 2016 09:55:53 +0000 (15:25 +0530)
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Fri, 18 Mar 2016 07:57:46 +0000 (09:57 +0200)
Results obtained from scan can be used for spectrum management by
doing something like building information of preferred channel
lists and sharing them with stations around. It is to be noted
that traffic to the connected stations would be affected during
the scan.

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c

index 209c13d113a7d4fcb627fffe10de7a6f06a86dac..eedfe821700b1b296417ea59a187186607278379 100644 (file)
@@ -7705,7 +7705,8 @@ int ath10k_mac_register(struct ath10k *ar)
        ar->hw->wiphy->max_remain_on_channel_duration = 5000;
 
        ar->hw->wiphy->flags |= WIPHY_FLAG_AP_UAPSD;
-       ar->hw->wiphy->features |= NL80211_FEATURE_AP_MODE_CHAN_WIDTH_CHANGE;
+       ar->hw->wiphy->features |= NL80211_FEATURE_AP_MODE_CHAN_WIDTH_CHANGE |
+                                  NL80211_FEATURE_AP_SCAN;
 
        ar->hw->wiphy->max_ap_assoc_sta = ar->max_num_stations;