On Mon, 2018-12-03 at 17:34 +0530, vamsi krishna wrote:
> NL80211_CMD_FRAME is used to send frames from userspace. Add support to
> transmit the frames at a rate specified by userspace when needed.
> The drivers shall indicate the support to send frames at rate specified
> by userspace by setting %NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CMD_FRAME_TXRATE flag in
> wiphy capabilities. The userspace can specify the rate within
> %NL80211_ATTR_RATE_INFO attribute while sending %NL80211_CMD_FRAME.
>
> NL80211_ATTR_RATE_INFO is a nested attribute and encapsulates the
> attributes defined in &enum nl80211_rate_info.
It'd be good if you were to repost this with a driver that uses it.
Also, please explain why you think userspace needs this? It's not like
it can make better rate decisions than the rate control algorithm,
right?
> [NL80211_ATTR_SCHED_SCAN_MIN_RSSI] = { .type = NLA_NESTED },
> + [NL80211_ATTR_RATE_INFO] = { .type = NLA_NESTED },
This should use NLA_POLICY_NESTED(nl80211_rate_info_policy)
johannes
