cfg80211: Enhance the AKM advertizement to support per interface.
authorVeerendranath Jakkam <vjakkam@codeaurora.org>
Sun, 26 Jan 2020 20:30:32 +0000 (02:00 +0530)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Fri, 7 Feb 2020 11:34:26 +0000 (12:34 +0100)
commitd6039a3416f7af37c04f22c411f120ad46f51663
treec089d9b6dd18df6e232779eca4e8cce3d9c93167
parent1e61d82cca170465902003bfe445f0461e28208b
cfg80211: Enhance the AKM advertizement to support per interface.

Commit ab4dfa20534e ("cfg80211: Allow drivers to advertise supported AKM
suites") introduces the support to advertize supported AKMs to userspace.

This needs an enhancement to advertize the AKM support per interface type,
specifically for the cfg80211-based drivers that implement SME and use
different mechanisms to support the AKM's for each interface type (e.g.,
the support for SAE, OWE AKM's take different paths for such drivers on
STA/AP mode).

This commit aims the same and enhances the earlier mechanism of advertizing
the AKMs per wiphy. Add new nl80211 attributes and data structure to
provide supported AKMs per interface type to userspace.

the AKMs advertized in akm_suites are default capabilities if not
advertized for a specific interface type in iftype_akm_suites.

Signed-off-by: Veerendranath Jakkam <vjakkam@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200126203032.21934-1-vjakkam@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
include/net/cfg80211.h
include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
net/wireless/nl80211.c