Name

ieee80211_beacon_get — beacon generation function

Synopsis

struct sk_buff * ieee80211_beacon_get (struct ieee80211_hw *  hw,
 struct ieee80211_vif *  vif,
 struct ieee80211_tx_control *  control);

Arguments

hw

pointer obtained from ieee80211_alloc_hw.

vif

struct ieee80211_vif pointer from struct ieee80211_if_init_conf.

control

will be filled with information needed to send this beacon.

Description

If the beacon frames are generated by the host system (i.e., not in hardware/firmware), the low-level driver uses this function to receive the next beacon frame from the 802.11 code. The low-level is responsible for calling this function before beacon data is needed (e.g., based on hardware interrupt). Returned skb is used only once and low-level driver is responsible of freeing it.