The cfg80211 subsystem

Table of Contents

1. Device registration

enum ieee80211_band — supported frequency bands

enum ieee80211_channel_flags — channel flags

struct ieee80211_channel — channel definition

enum ieee80211_rate_flags — rate flags

struct ieee80211_rate — bitrate definition

struct ieee80211_sta_ht_cap — STA's HT capabilities

struct ieee80211_supported_band — frequency band definition

enum cfg80211_signal_type — signal type

enum wiphy_params_flags — set_wiphy_params bitfield values

enum wiphy_flags — wiphy capability flags

struct wiphy — wireless hardware description

struct wireless_dev — wireless per-netdev state

wiphy_new — create a new wiphy for use with cfg80211

wiphy_register — register a wiphy with cfg80211

wiphy_unregister — deregister a wiphy from cfg80211

wiphy_free — free wiphy

wiphy_name — get wiphy name

wiphy_dev — get wiphy dev pointer

wiphy_priv — return priv from wiphy

priv_to_wiphy — return the wiphy containing the priv

set_wiphy_dev — set device pointer for wiphy

wdev_priv — return wiphy priv from wireless_dev

2. Actions and configuration

struct cfg80211_ops — backend description for wireless configuration

struct vif_params — describes virtual interface parameters

struct key_params — key information

enum survey_info_flags — survey information flags

struct survey_info — channel survey response

struct beacon_parameters — beacon parameters

enum plink_actions — actions to perform in mesh peers

struct station_parameters — station parameters

enum station_info_flags — station information flags

enum rate_info_flags — bitrate info flags

struct rate_info — bitrate information

struct station_info — station information

enum monitor_flags — monitor flags

enum mpath_info_flags — mesh path information flags

struct mpath_info — mesh path information

struct bss_parameters — BSS parameters

struct ieee80211_txq_params — TX queue parameters

struct cfg80211_crypto_settings — Crypto settings

struct cfg80211_auth_request — Authentication request data

struct cfg80211_assoc_request — (Re)Association request data

struct cfg80211_deauth_request — Deauthentication request data

struct cfg80211_disassoc_request — Disassociation request data

struct cfg80211_ibss_params — IBSS parameters

struct cfg80211_connect_params — Connection parameters

struct cfg80211_pmksa — PMK Security Association

cfg80211_send_rx_auth — notification of processed authentication

cfg80211_send_auth_timeout — notification of timed out authentication

__cfg80211_auth_canceled — notify cfg80211 that authentication was canceled

cfg80211_send_rx_assoc — notification of processed association

cfg80211_send_assoc_timeout — notification of timed out association

cfg80211_send_deauth — notification of processed deauthentication

__cfg80211_send_deauth — notification of processed deauthentication

cfg80211_send_disassoc — notification of processed disassociation

__cfg80211_send_disassoc — notification of processed disassociation

cfg80211_ibss_joined — notify cfg80211 that device joined an IBSS

cfg80211_connect_result — notify cfg80211 of connection result

cfg80211_roamed — notify cfg80211 of roaming

cfg80211_disconnected — notify cfg80211 that connection was dropped

cfg80211_ready_on_channel — notification of remain_on_channel start

cfg80211_remain_on_channel_expired — remain_on_channel duration expired

cfg80211_new_sta — notify userspace about station

cfg80211_rx_mgmt — notification of received, unprocessed management frame

cfg80211_mgmt_tx_status — notification of TX status for management frame

cfg80211_cqm_rssi_notify — connection quality monitoring rssi event

cfg80211_cqm_pktloss_notify — notify userspace about packetloss to peer

cfg80211_michael_mic_failure — notification of Michael MIC failure (TKIP)

3. Scanning and BSS list handling

struct cfg80211_ssid — SSID description

struct cfg80211_scan_request — scan request description

cfg80211_scan_done — notify that scan finished

struct cfg80211_bss — BSS description

cfg80211_inform_bss_frame — inform cfg80211 of a received BSS frame

cfg80211_inform_bss — inform cfg80211 of a new BSS

cfg80211_unlink_bss — unlink BSS from internal data structures

cfg80211_find_ie — find information element in data

ieee80211_bss_get_ie — find IE with given ID

4. Utility functions

ieee80211_channel_to_frequency — convert channel number to frequency

ieee80211_frequency_to_channel — convert frequency to channel number

ieee80211_get_channel — get channel struct from wiphy for specified frequency

ieee80211_get_response_rate — get basic rate for a given rate

ieee80211_hdrlen — get header length in bytes from frame control

ieee80211_get_hdrlen_from_skb — get header length from data

struct ieee80211_radiotap_iterator — tracks walk thru present radiotap args

5. Data path helpers

ieee80211_data_to_8023 — convert an 802.11 data frame to 802.3

ieee80211_data_from_8023 — convert an 802.3 frame to 802.11

ieee80211_amsdu_to_8023s — decode an IEEE 802.11n A-MSDU frame

cfg80211_classify8021d — determine the 802.1p/1d tag for a data frame

6. Regulatory enforcement infrastructure

regulatory_hint — driver hint to the wireless core a regulatory domain

wiphy_apply_custom_regulatory — apply a custom driver regulatory domain

freq_reg_info — get regulatory information for the given frequency

7. RFkill integration

wiphy_rfkill_set_hw_state — notify cfg80211 about hw block state

wiphy_rfkill_start_polling — start polling rfkill

wiphy_rfkill_stop_polling — stop polling rfkill

8. Test mode

cfg80211_testmode_alloc_reply_skb — allocate testmode reply

cfg80211_testmode_reply — send the reply skb

cfg80211_testmode_alloc_event_skb — allocate testmode event

cfg80211_testmode_event — send the event