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    • Felix Fietkau's avatar
      mac80211: allow AP configuration of beacon interval, DTIM period, maximum... · 3494bdc5
      Felix Fietkau authored
      mac80211: allow AP configuration of beacon interval, DTIM period, maximum permissible STA listen interval, and basic rates
      
      This introduces beacon_int and basic_rate (per wifi-device), and
      dtim_period and max_listen_int (per wifi-iface) for mac80211. These
      configure the beacon interval, basic rate specification, DTIM period
      (one DTIM per this many beacon frames), and maximum listen interval
      that a STA will be permitted to associate with. All of the new
      settings are optional; if they're absent, the existing hostapd (or, in
      the case of basic_rate, driver) defaults will be used.
      
      The existing bintval property only used for type adhoc is moved from
      wifi-iface to wifi-device, and is renamed to beacon_interval because
      bintval isn't a great name. The beacon interval is property of the
      wifi-device; while the choice between wifi-device and wifi-iface may
      not be relevant with an adhoc network, there's no reason to configure
      the same property one way for type adhoc and another for type ap. This
      change isn't expected to cause many problems, as bintval was added
      recently, in r25111.
      
      Similarly, the list of basic rates, also added for type adhoc in
      r25111, is a property of the device and not the interface. Further, it
      ought to be represented in UCI as a list, not a string dependent on
      the format that iw uses. I’ve moved it onto the device, renamed it to
      basic_rate, and made it configurable for APs via hostapd. Finally, I
      adapted it to use the same kb/s representation as mcast_rate; there's
      precedent for this format in that it's also how madwifi interprets
      mcast_rate.
      
      Neither bintval nor basicrates were ever documented in the UCI
      wireless configuration page on the wiki. When this change is
      committed, I'll update the documentation as needed.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Mentovai <mark@moxienet.com>
      
      SVN-Revision: 25837
      3494bdc5
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