5 files changed, 351 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
index 300e1707893f..9ebd1f00c6e7 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ DOCBOOKS := wanbook.xml z8530book.xml mcabook.xml videobook.xml \
             procfs-guide.xml writing_usb_driver.xml networking.xml \
             kernel-api.xml filesystems.xml lsm.xml usb.xml \
             gadget.xml libata.xml mtdnand.xml librs.xml rapidio.xml \
-            genericirq.xml s390-drivers.xml uio-howto.xml scsi.xml
+            genericirq.xml s390-drivers.xml uio-howto.xml scsi.xml \
+            mac80211.xml
 
 ###
 # The build process is as follows (targets):
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/mac80211.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/mac80211.tmpl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b651e0a4b1c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/mac80211.tmpl
@@ -0,0 +1,335 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
+        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []>
+
+<book id="mac80211-developers-guide">
+  <bookinfo>
+    <title>The mac80211 subsystem for kernel developers</title>
+
+    <authorgroup>
+      <author>
+        <firstname>Johannes</firstname>
+        <surname>Berg</surname>
+        <affiliation>
+          <address><email>johannes@sipsolutions.net</email></address>
+        </affiliation>
+      </author>
+    </authorgroup>
+
+    <copyright>
+      <year>2007</year>
+      <year>2008</year>
+      <holder>Johannes Berg</holder>
+    </copyright>
+
+    <legalnotice>
+      <para>
+        This documentation is free software; you can redistribute
+        it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
+        License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be
+        useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
+        warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+        See the GNU General Public License for more details.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
+        License along with this documentation; if not, write to the Free
+        Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
+        MA 02111-1307 USA
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        For more details see the file COPYING in the source
+        distribution of Linux.
+      </para>
+    </legalnotice>
+
+    <abstract>
+!Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Introduction
+!Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Warning
+    </abstract>
+  </bookinfo>
+
+  <toc></toc>
+
+<!--
+Generally, this document shall be ordered by increasing complexity.
+It is important to note that readers should be able to read only
+the first few sections to get a working driver and only advanced
+usage should require reading the full document.
+-->
+
+  <part>
+    <title>The basic mac80211 driver interface</title>
+    <partintro>
+      <para>
+        You should read and understand the information contained
+        within this part of the book while implementing a driver.
+        In some chapters, advanced usage is noted, that may be
+        skipped at first.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        This part of the book only covers station and monitor mode
+        functionality, additional information required to implement
+        the other modes is covered in the second part of the book.
+      </para>
+    </partintro>
+
+    <chapter id="basics">
+      <title>Basic hardware handling</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+      <para>
+        This chapter shall contain information on getting a hw
+        struct allocated and registered with mac80211.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        Since it is required to allocate rates/modes before registering
+        a hw struct, this chapter shall also contain information on setting
+        up the rate/mode structs.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        Additionally, some discussion about the callbacks and
+        the general programming model should be in here, including
+        the definition of ieee80211_ops which will be referred to
+        a lot.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        Finally, a discussion of hardware capabilities should be done
+        with references to other parts of the book.
+      </para>
+<!-- intentionally multiple !F lines to get proper order -->
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_hw
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_hw_flags
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h SET_IEEE80211_DEV
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h SET_IEEE80211_PERM_ADDR
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_ops
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_alloc_hw
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_register_hw
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_tx_led_name
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_rx_led_name
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_assoc_led_name
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_radio_led_name
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_unregister_hw
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_free_hw
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="phy-handling">
+      <title>PHY configuration</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+      <para>
+        This chapter should describe PHY handling including
+        start/stop callbacks and the various structures used.
+      </para>
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_conf
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_conf_flags
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="iface-handling">
+      <title>Virtual interfaces</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+      <para>
+        This chapter should describe virtual interface basics
+        that are relevant to the driver (VLANs, MGMT etc are not.)
+        It should explain the use of the add_iface/remove_iface
+        callbacks as well as the interface configuration callbacks.
+      </para>
+      <para>Things related to AP mode should be discussed there.</para>
+      <para>
+        Things related to supporting multiple interfaces should be
+        in the appropriate chapter, a BIG FAT note should be here about
+        this though and the recommendation to allow only a single
+        interface in STA mode at first!
+      </para>
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_if_types
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_if_init_conf
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_if_conf
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="rx-tx">
+      <title>Receive and transmit processing</title>
+      <sect1>
+        <title>what should be here</title>
+        <para>TBD</para>
+        <para>
+          This should describe the receive and transmit
+          paths in mac80211/the drivers as well as
+          transmit status handling.
+        </para>
+      </sect1>
+      <sect1>
+        <title>Frame format</title>
+!Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Frame format
+      </sect1>
+      <sect1>
+        <title>Alignment issues</title>
+        <para>TBD</para>
+      </sect1>
+      <sect1>
+        <title>Calling into mac80211 from interrupts</title>
+!Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Calling mac80211 from interrupts
+      </sect1>
+      <sect1>
+        <title>functions/definitions</title>
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_rx_status
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h mac80211_rx_flags
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_tx_control
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_tx_status_flags
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_rx
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_rx_irqsafe
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_tx_status
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_rts_get
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_rts_duration
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_ctstoself_get
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_ctstoself_duration
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_generic_frame_duration
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_hdrlen_from_skb
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_hdrlen
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_wake_queue
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_stop_queue
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_start_queues
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_stop_queues
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_wake_queues
+      </sect1>
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="filters">
+      <title>Frame filtering</title>
+!Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Frame filtering
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_filter_flags
+    </chapter>
+  </part>
+
+  <part id="advanced">
+    <title>Advanced driver interface</title>
+    <partintro>
+      <para>
+       Information contained within this part of the book is
+       of interest only for advanced interaction of mac80211
+       with drivers to exploit more hardware capabilities and
+       improve performance.
+      </para>
+    </partintro>
+
+    <chapter id="hardware-crypto-offload">
+      <title>Hardware crypto acceleration</title>
+!Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Hardware crypto acceleration
+<!-- intentionally multiple !F lines to get proper order -->
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h set_key_cmd
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_key_conf
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_key_alg
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_key_flags
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="qos">
+      <title>Multiple queues and QoS support</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_tx_queue_params
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_tx_queue_stats_data
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_tx_queue
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="AP">
+      <title>Access point mode support</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+      <para>Some parts of the if_conf should be discussed here instead</para>
+      <para>
+        Insert notes about VLAN interfaces with hw crypto here or
+        in the hw crypto chapter.
+      </para>
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_buffered_bc
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_beacon_get
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="multi-iface">
+      <title>Supporting multiple virtual interfaces</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+      <para>
+        Note: WDS with identical MAC address should almost always be OK
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        Insert notes about having multiple virtual interfaces with
+        different MAC addresses here, note which configurations are
+        supported by mac80211, add notes about supporting hw crypto
+        with it.
+      </para>
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="hardware-scan-offload">
+      <title>Hardware scan offload</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_scan_completed
+    </chapter>
+  </part>
+
+  <part id="rate-control">
+    <title>Rate control interface</title>
+    <partintro>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+      <para>
+       This part of the book describes the rate control algorithm
+       interface and how it relates to mac80211 and drivers.
+      </para>
+    </partintro>
+    <chapter id="dummy">
+      <title>dummy chapter</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+    </chapter>
+  </part>
+
+  <part id="internal">
+    <title>Internals</title>
+    <partintro>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+      <para>
+       This part of the book describes mac80211 internals.
+      </para>
+    </partintro>
+
+    <chapter id="key-handling">
+      <title>Key handling</title>
+      <sect1>
+        <title>Key handling basics</title>
+!Pnet/mac80211/key.c Key handling basics
+      </sect1>
+      <sect1>
+        <title>MORE TBD</title>
+        <para>TBD</para>
+      </sect1>
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="rx-processing">
+      <title>Receive processing</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="tx-processing">
+      <title>Transmit processing</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="sta-info">
+      <title>Station info handling</title>
+      <sect1>
+        <title>Programming information</title>
+!Fnet/mac80211/sta_info.h sta_info
+!Fnet/mac80211/sta_info.h ieee80211_sta_info_flags
+      </sect1>
+      <sect1>
+        <title>STA information lifetime rules</title>
+!Pnet/mac80211/sta_info.c STA information lifetime rules
+      </sect1>
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="synchronisation">
+      <title>Synchronisation</title>
+      <para>TBD</para>
+      <para>Locking, lots of RCU</para>
+    </chapter>
+  </part>
+</book>
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 6aca472d7a02..d002b1c6e78e 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -407,7 +407,6 @@ enum ieee80211_conf_flags {
  * @channel: the channel to tune to
  */
 struct ieee80211_conf {
-        unsigned int regulatory_domain;
         int radio_enabled;
 
         int beacon_int;
@@ -437,6 +436,7 @@ struct ieee80211_conf {
  * @IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_WDS: interface in WDS mode.
  * @IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_VLAN: VLAN interface bound to an AP, drivers
  *      will never see this type.
+ * @IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_MESH_POINT: 802.11s mesh point
  */
 enum ieee80211_if_types {
         IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_INVALID,
@@ -1096,8 +1096,9 @@ struct ieee80211_hw *ieee80211_alloc_hw(size_t priv_data_len,
 /**
  * ieee80211_register_hw - Register hardware device
  *
- * You must call this function before any other functions
- * except ieee80211_register_hwmode.
+ * You must call this function before any other functions in
+ * mac80211. Note that before a hardware can be registered, you
+ * need to fill the contained wiphy's information.
  *
  * @hw: the device to register as returned by ieee80211_alloc_hw()
  */
diff --git a/net/mac80211/key.c b/net/mac80211/key.c
index df0c04cedbe4..166d0f00d135 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/key.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/key.c
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@
 #include "aes_ccm.h"
 
 
-/*
- * Key handling basics
+/**
+ * DOC: Key handling basics
  *
  * Key handling in mac80211 is done based on per-interface (sub_if_data)
  * keys and per-station keys. Since each station belongs to an interface,
diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
index a767042ec4fd..42414b441592 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
@@ -31,10 +31,10 @@
  * for faster lookup and a list for iteration. They are managed using
  * RCU, i.e. access to the list and hash table is protected by RCU.
  *
- * Upon allocating a STA info structure with @sta_info_alloc() or
+ * Upon allocating a STA info structure with sta_info_alloc() or
  * mesh_plink_alloc(), the caller owns that structure. It must then either
- * destroy it using @sta_info_destroy() (which is pretty useless) or insert
- * it into the hash table using @sta_info_insert() which demotes the reference
+ * destroy it using sta_info_destroy() (which is pretty useless) or insert
+ * it into the hash table using sta_info_insert() which demotes the reference
  * from ownership to a regular RCU-protected reference; if the function
  * is called without protection by an RCU critical section the reference
  * is instantly invalidated.
@@ -42,19 +42,19 @@
  * Because there are debugfs entries for each station, and adding those
  * must be able to sleep, it is also possible to "pin" a station entry,
  * that means it can be removed from the hash table but not be freed.
- * See the comment in @__sta_info_unlink() for more information.
+ * See the comment in __sta_info_unlink() for more information.
  *
  * In order to remove a STA info structure, the caller needs to first
- * unlink it (@sta_info_unlink()) from the list and hash tables and
+ * unlink it (sta_info_unlink()) from the list and hash tables and
  * then wait for an RCU synchronisation before it can be freed. Due to
  * the pinning and the possibility of multiple callers trying to remove
- * the same STA info at the same time, @sta_info_unlink() can clear the
+ * the same STA info at the same time, sta_info_unlink() can clear the
  * STA info pointer it is passed to indicate that the STA info is owned
  * by somebody else now.
  *
- * If @sta_info_unlink() did not clear the pointer then the caller owns
+ * If sta_info_unlink() did not clear the pointer then the caller owns
  * the STA info structure now and is responsible of destroying it with
- * a call to @sta_info_destroy(), not before RCU synchronisation, of
+ * a call to sta_info_destroy(), not before RCU synchronisation, of
  * course. Note that sta_info_destroy() must be protected by the RTNL.
  *
  * In all other cases, there is no concept of ownership on a STA entry,