[PATCH wireless-next] wifi: ieee80211: define beacon protection bit field

Karthikeyan Kathirvel karthikeyan.kathirvel at oss.qualcomm.com
Mon Apr 21 04:15:05 PDT 2025


An AP supporting Beacon Protection should set bit 84 in
the extended capabilities IE (9.4.2.25 in the 802.11be D7 spec).
So the *4th* bit of the 10th byte should be checked to figure out
whether beacon protection is enabled or disabled.

Signed-off-by: Karthikeyan Kathirvel <karthikeyan.kathirvel at oss.qualcomm.com>
---
 include/linux/ieee80211.h | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/ieee80211.h b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
index 508d466de1cc..aef5a616d598 100644
--- a/include/linux/ieee80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
@@ -4087,6 +4087,9 @@ enum ieee80211_tdls_actioncode {
 /* Defines support for enhanced multi-bssid advertisement*/
 #define WLAN_EXT_CAPA11_EMA_SUPPORT	BIT(3)
 
+/* Enable Beacon Protection */
+#define WLAN_EXT_CAPA11_BCN_PROTECT BIT(4)
+
 /* TDLS specific payload type in the LLC/SNAP header */
 #define WLAN_TDLS_SNAP_RFTYPE	0x2
 

base-commit: 0af2f6be1b4281385b618cb86ad946eded089ac8
-- 
2.34.1




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