mac80211: notify driver for change in multicast rates

With drivers implementing rate control in driver or firmware
rate_control_send_low() may not get called, and thus the
driver needs to know about changes in the multicast rate.

Add and use a new BSS change flag for this.

Signed-off-by: Pradeep Kumar Chitrapu <pradeepc@codeaurora.org>
[rewrite commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Pradeep Kumar Chitrapu 2018-03-22 12:18:03 -07:00 • committed by Johannes Berg
commit dcbe73ca55
5 changed files with 10 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -302,6 +302,8 @@ struct ieee80211_vif_chanctx_switch {
* @BSS_CHANGED_MU_GROUPS: VHT MU-MIMO group id or user position changed
* @BSS_CHANGED_KEEP_ALIVE: keep alive options (idle period or protected
* keep alive) changed.
* @BSS_CHANGED_MCAST_RATE: Multicast Rate setting changed for this interface
*
*/
enum ieee80211_bss_change {
BSS_CHANGED_ASSOC = 1<<0,
@ -329,6 +331,7 @@ enum ieee80211_bss_change {
BSS_CHANGED_OCB = 1<<22,
BSS_CHANGED_MU_GROUPS = 1<<23,
BSS_CHANGED_KEEP_ALIVE = 1<<24,
BSS_CHANGED_MCAST_RATE = 1<<25,
/* when adding here, make sure to change ieee80211_reconfig */
};