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2011-05-22wireless: fix fatal kernel-doc error + warning in mac80211.hRandy Dunlap
Fix new kernel-doc Error and Warning in <net/mac80211.h>: Error(linux-2.6.39-git5/include/net/mac80211.h:550): cannot understand prototype: 'struct ieee80211_sched_scan_ies ' Warning(linux-2.6.39-git5/include/net/mac80211.h:2289): No description found for parameter 'sta' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-16Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-tx.c net/mac80211/sta_info.h
2011-05-11mac80211: add support for HW scheduled scanLuciano Coelho
Implement support for HW scheduled scan. The mac80211 code doesn't perform scheduled scans itself, but calls the driver to start and stop scheduled scans. This patch also creates a trace event class to be used by drv_hw_scan and the new drv_sched_scan_start and drv_sched_stop functions, in order to avoid duplicate code. Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-05mac80211: add basic support for WoWLANJohannes Berg
This adds basic support for the new WoWLAN configuration in mac80211. The behaviour is completely offloaded to the driver though, with two new callbacks (suspend/resume). Options for the driver include a complete reconfiguration after wakeup, and exposing all the triggers it wants to support. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-05Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_cs.c drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c
2011-04-28mac80211: Add new API for rate selectionSujith Manoharan
This patch adds a new API for setting a TX rate mask in drivers that have rate control in either the firmware or hardware. This can be used for various purposes, for example, masking out the 11b rates in P2P operation. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-28mac80211: allow low level drivers to report packet lossArik Nemtsov
Add API that allows low level drivers to notify mac80211 about TX packet loss. This is useful when there are FW triggers to notify the low level driver about these events. Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-25Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.h
2011-04-19mac80211: add a function for setting the TIM bit for a specific stationFelix Fietkau
This allows a driver to buffer frames for a PS station and tell mac80211 to wake it up even though mac80211 does not have any buffered frames for it. This is necessary for properly handling aggregation related buffering, in ath9k, because the driver needs to keep its frames in order to keep track of the Block-ACK window. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-12mac80211: Check for queued frames before entering power save.Vivek Natarajan
In a highly noisy environment, the tx rate of the driver drops and the application slows down since it has not yet received ACKs for the frames already queued in the hardware. Since this ACK may take more than 100ms, stopping the dev queues for entering PS at this stage breaks applications, WMM test cases in my testing. If there are frames already pending in the tx queue, postponing the PS logic helps to avoid redundant queue stops. When power save is enabled by default and in a noisy environment, this API certainly helps in improving the average throughput. Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-11Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (34 commits) net: Add support for SMSC LAN9530, LAN9730 and LAN89530 mlx4_en: Restoring RX buffer pointer in case of failure mlx4: Sensing link type at device initialization ipv4: Fix "Set rt->rt_iif more sanely on output routes." MAINTAINERS: add entry for Xen network backend be2net: Fix suspend/resume operation be2net: Rename some struct members for clarity pppoe: drop PPPOX_ZOMBIEs in pppoe_flush_dev dsa/mv88e6131: add support for mv88e6085 switch ipv6: Enable RFS sk_rxhash tracking for ipv6 sockets (v2) be2net: Fix a potential crash during shutdown. bna: Fix for handling firmware heartbeat failure can: mcp251x: Allow pass IRQ flags through platform data. smsc911x: fix mac_lock acquision before calling smsc911x_mac_read iwlwifi: accept EEPROM version 0x423 for iwl6000 rt2x00: fix cancelling uninitialized work rtlwifi: Fix some warnings/bugs p54usb: IDs for two new devices wl12xx: fix potential buffer overflow in testmode nvs push zd1211rw: reset rx idle timer from tasklet ...
2011-04-04mac80211: fix comment regarding aggregation buf_sizeJohannes Berg
The description for buf_size was misleading and just said you couldn't TX larger aggregates, but of course you can't TX aggregates in a way that would exceed the window either, which is possible even if the aggregates are shorter than that. Expand the description, thanks to Emmanuel for explaining this to me. Cc: Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-21wireless: fix 80211 kernel-doc warningsRandy Dunlap
Fix many of each of these warnings: Warning(include/net/cfg80211.h:519): No description found for parameter 'rxrate' Warning(include/net/mac80211.h:1163): bad line: Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-11mac80211: implement support for cfg80211_ops->{get,set}_ringparamJohn W. Linville
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-25mac80211: support direct offchannel TX offloadJohannes Berg
For devices supported by iwlwifi sometimes off-channel transmissions need to be handled by the device completely. To support this mac80211 needs to pass the frame directly to the driver and not through the TX path as the driver needs the frame and channel information at the same time. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-25mac80211: make tx() operation return voidJohannes Berg
The return value of the tx operation is commonly misused by drivers, leading to errors. All drivers will drop frames if they fail to TX the frame, and they must also properly manage the queues (if they didn't, mac80211 would already warn). Removing the ability for drivers to return a BUSY value also allows significant cleanups of the TX TX handling code in mac80211. Note that this also fixes a bug in ath9k_htc, the old "return -1" there was wrong. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com> [ath5k] Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> [rt2x00] Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> [b43, rtl8187, rtlwifi] Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> [wl12xx] Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-23mac80211: rename RX_FLAG_TSFTJohannes Berg
The flag isn't very descriptive -- the intention is that the driver provides a TSF timestamp at the beginning of the MPDU -- make that clearer by renaming the flag to RX_FLAG_MACTIME_MPDU. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-03mac80211: Add testing functionality for TKIPJouni Malinen
TKIP countermeasures depend on devices being able to detect Michael MIC failures on received frames and for stations to report errors to the AP. In order to test that behavior, it is useful to be able to send out TKIP frames with incorrect Michael MIC. This testing behavior has minimal effect on the TX path, so it can be added to mac80211 for convenient use. The interface for using this functionality is a file in mac80211 netdev debugfs (tkip_mic_test). Writing a MAC address to the file makes mac80211 generate a dummy data frame that will be sent out using invalid Michael MIC value. In AP mode, the address needs to be for one of the associated stations or ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff to use a broadcast frame. In station mode, the address can be anything, e.g., the current BSSID. It should be noted that this functionality works correctly only when associated and using TKIP. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-03mac80211: add HW flag for disabling auto link-PS in AP modeArik Nemtsov
When operating in AP mode the wl1271 hardware filters out null-data packets as well as management packets. This makes it impossible for mac80211 to monitor the PS mode by using the PM bit of incoming frames. Implement a HW flag to indicate that mac80211 should ignore the PM bit. In addition, expose ieee80211_sta_ps_transition() to make low-level drivers capable of controlling PS-mode. Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-19mac80211: allow advertising correct maximum aggregate sizeJohannes Berg
Currently, mac80211 always advertises that it may send up to 64 subframes in an aggregate. This is fine, since it's the max, but might as well be set to zero instead since it doesn't have any information. However, drivers might have that information, so allow them to set a variable giving it, which will then be used. The default of zero will be fine since to the peer that means we don't know and it will just use its own limit for the buffer size. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-19mac80211: track receiver's aggregation reorder buffer sizeJohannes Berg
The aggregation code currently doesn't implement the buffer size negotiation. It will always request a max buffer size (which is fine, if a little pointless, as the mac80211 code doesn't know and might just use 0 instead), but if the peer requests a smaller size it isn't possible to honour this request. In order to fix this, look at the buffer size in the addBA response frame, keep track of it and pass it to the driver in the ampdu_action callback when called with the IEEE80211_AMPDU_TX_OPERATIONAL action. That way the driver can limit the number of subframes in aggregates appropriately. Note that this doesn't fix any drivers apart from the addition of the new argument -- they all need to be updated separately to use this variable! Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-19mac80211: add hw configuration for max ampdu buffer sizeLuciano Coelho
Some devices don't support the maximum AMDPU buffer size of 64, so we need to add an option to configure this in the hardware configuration. This value will be used in the ADDBA response instead of the value suggested in the request, if the latter is greater than the max supported. Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> Tested-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-10mac80211: add missing docs for off-chan TX flagJohannes Berg
The flag is IEEE80211_TX_CTL_TX_OFFCHAN and I had added that in a previous patch but forgotten docs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-10mac80211: add remain-on-channel docsJohannes Berg
Add documentation for the new callbacks that I forgot in the patch adding the callbacks. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-05mac80211: implement hardware offload for remain-on-channelJohannes Berg
This allows drivers to support remain-on-channel offload if they implement smarter timing or need to use a device implementation like iwlwifi. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-22mac80211: selective throughput LED trigger activeJohannes Berg
The throughput LED trigger was always active when the radio was enabled. In most cases that's likely the desired behaviour, but iwlwifi requires it to be only active when one of the virtual interfaces is actually "connected" in some way. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-22mac80211: add throughput based LED blink triggerJohannes Berg
iwlwifi and other drivers like to blink their LED based on throughput. Implement this generically in mac80211, based on a throughput table the driver specifies. That way, drivers can set the blink frequencies depending on their desired behaviour and max throughput. All the drivers need to do is provide an LED class device, best with blink hardware offload. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-15mac80211: Add timeout to BA session start APISujith Manoharan
Allow drivers or rate control algorithms to specify BlockAck session timeout when initiating an ADDBA transaction. This is useful in cases where maintaining persistent BA sessions does not incur any overhead. The current timeout value of 5000 TUs is retained for all non ath9k/ath9k_htc drivers. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-30mac80211/rt2x00: add ieee80211_tx_status_ni()Johannes Stezenbach
All rt2x00 drivers except rt2800pci call ieee80211_tx_status() from a workqueue, which causes "NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08" messages. To fix it, add ieee80211_tx_status_ni() similar to ieee80211_rx_ni() which can be called from process context, and call it from rt2x00lib_txdone(). For the rt2800pci special case a driver flag is introduced. Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-24cfg80211: Add documentation for antenna opsBruno Randolf
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-24cfg80211/mac80211: improve ad-hoc multicast rate handlingFelix Fietkau
- store the multicast rate as an index instead of the rate value (reduces cpu overhead in a hotpath) - validate the rate values (must match a bitrate in at least one sband) Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-17mac80211: defines for AC numbersJohannes Berg
In many places we've just hardcoded the AC numbers -- which is a relic from the original mac80211 (d80211). Add constants for them so we know what we're talking about. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-16mac80211: add support for setting the ad-hoc multicast rateFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-16mac80211: Add function to get probe request template for current APJuuso Oikarinen
Chipsets with hardware based connection monitoring need to autonomically send directed probe-request frames to the AP (in the event of beacon loss, for example.) For the hardware to be able to do this, it requires a template for the frame to transmit to the AP, filled in with the BSSID and SSID of the AP, but also the supported rate IE's. This patch adds a function to mac80211, which allows the hardware driver to fetch this template after association, so it can be configured to the hardware. Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-16mac80211: Add antenna configurationBruno Randolf
Allow antenna configuration by calling driver's function for it. We disallow antenna configuration if the wiphy is already running, mainly to make life easier for 802.11n drivers which need to recalculate HT capabilites. Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-16mac80211: support hardware TX fragmentation offloadArik Nemtsov
The lower driver is notified when the fragmentation threshold changes and upon a reconfig of the interface. If the driver supports hardware TX fragmentation, don't fragment packets in the stack. Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-13mac80211: add probe request filter flagJohannes Berg
Using the frame registration notification, we can see when probe requests are requested and notify the low-level driver via filtering. The flag is also set in AP and IBSS modes. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-06cfg80211/mac80211: allow per-station GTKsJohannes Berg
This adds API to allow adding per-station GTKs, updates mac80211 to support it, and also allows drivers to remove a key from hwaccel again when this may be necessary due to multiple GTKs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-05mac80211: distinct between max rates and the number of rates the hw can reportHelmut Schaa
Some drivers cannot handle multiple retry rates specified by the rc algorithm but instead use their own retry table (for example rt2800). However, if such a device registers itself with a max_rates value of 1 the rc algorithm cannot make use of the extended information the device can provide about retried rates. On the other hand, if a device registers itself with a max_rates value > 1 the rc algorithm assumes that the device can handle multi rate retries. Fix this issue by introducing another hw parameter max_report_rates that can be set to a different value then max_rates to indicate if a device is capable of reporting more rates then specified in max_rates. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-27mac80211: move packet flags into packetJohannes Berg
commit 8c0c709eea5cbab97fb464cd68b06f24acc58ee1 Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Date: Wed Nov 25 17:46:15 2009 +0100 mac80211: move cmntr flag out of rx flags moved the CMNTR flag into the skb RX flags for some aggregation cleanups, but this was wrong since the optimisation this flag tried to make requires that it is kept across the processing of multiple interfaces -- which isn't true for flags in the skb. The patch not only broke the optimisation, it also introduced a bug: under some (common!) circumstances the flag will be set on an already freed skb! However, investigating this in more detail, I found that most of the flags that we set should be per packet, _except_ for this one, due to a-MPDU processing. Additionally, the flags used for processing (currently just this one) need to be reset before processing a new packet. Since we haven't actually seen bugs reported as a result of the wrong flags handling (which is not too surprising -- the only real bug case I can come up with is an a-MSDU contained in an a-MPDU), I'll make a different fix for rc. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-27mac80211/ath9k: Support AMPDU with multiple VIFs.Ben Greear
The old ieee80211_find_sta_by_hw method didn't properly find VIFS when there was more than one per AP. This caused AMPDU logic in ath9k to get the wrong VIF when trying to account for transmitted SKBs. This patch changes ieee80211_find_sta_by_hw to take a localaddr argument to distinguish between VIFs with the same AP but different local addresses. The method name is changed to ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-24mac80211: clear txflags for ps-filtered framesChristian Lamparter
This patch fixes stale mac80211_tx_control_flags for filtered / retried frames. Because ieee80211_handle_filtered_frame feeds skbs back into the tx path, they have to be stripped of some tx flags so they won't confuse the stack, driver or device. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-16mac80211: add p2p device type supportJohannes Berg
When a driver advertises p2p device support, mac80211 will handle it, but internally it will rewrite the interface type to STA/AP rather than P2P-STA/GO since otherwise a lot of paths need to be touched that are otherwise identical. A p2p boolean tells drivers whether or not a given interface will be used for p2p or not. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-14mac80211: add a note about iterating interfaces during add_interface()Felix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-27mac80211: support runtime interface type changesJohannes Berg
Add support to mac80211 for changing the interface type even when the interface is UP, if the driver supports it. To achieve this * add a new driver callback for switching, * split some of the interface up/down code out into new functions (do_open/do_stop), and * maintain an own __SDATA_RUNNING bit that will not be set during interface type, so that any other code doesn't use the interface. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-27mac80211: allow scan to complete from any contextJohannes Berg
The ieee80211_scan_completed() function was a frequent source of potential deadlocks, since it is called by drivers but may call back into drivers, so drivers had to make sure to call it without any locks held, which frequently lead to more complex code in drivers. Avoid that problem by allowing the function to be called in any context, and queueing the actual work it does. Also update the documentation for it to indicate this. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-25mac80211: trivial spelling fixesBob Copeland
Fix spelling and readability of a few lines of kernel doc: s/issueing/issuing/g s/approriate/appropriate/g s/supported by simply/supported simply by/ s/IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTERING/IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTER/g Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-24mac80211: fix docbookJohannes Berg
Fix a small problem in the documentation for ieee80211_request_smps, and a now erroneous inclusion of enum ieee80211_key_alg, which no longer exists after the change to ciphers. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16mac80211: use cipher suite selectorsJohannes Berg
Currently, mac80211 translates the cfg80211 cipher suite selectors into ALG_* values. That isn't all too useful, and some drivers benefit from the distinction between WEP40 and WEP104 as well. Therefore, convert it all to use the cipher suite selectors. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>