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* mac80211: implement dynamic power saveKalle Valo2008-12-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch implements dynamic power save for mac80211. Basically it means enabling power save mode after an idle period. Implementing it dynamically gives a good compromise of low power consumption and low latency. Some hardware have support for this in firmware, but some require the host to do it. The dynamic power save is implemented by adding an timeout to ieee80211_subif_start_xmit(). The timeout can be enabled from userspace with Wireless Extensions. For example, the command below enables the dynamic power save and sets the time timeout to 500 ms: iwconfig wlan0 power timeout 500m Power save now only works with devices which handle power save in firmware. It's also disabled by default and the heuristics when and how to enable is considered as a policy decision and will be left for the userspace to handle. In case the firmware has support for this, drivers can disable this feature with IEEE80211_HW_NO_STACK_DYNAMIC_PS. Big thanks to Johannes Berg for the help with the design and code. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: enable IEEE80211_CONF_PS only when associatedKalle Valo2008-12-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | Also disable power save when disassociated. It makes no sense to have power save enabled while disassociated. iwlwifi seems to have this check in the driver, but it's better to do this in mac80211 instead. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Disable requests for new scans in AP modeJouni Malinen2008-12-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | AP mode operations are seriously affected if mac80211 runs through a multi-second scan while the AP is trying to send Beacon frames on the operation channel. While this could be implemented in a way that does not cause too many problems, it is not very simple and will require synchronization with Beacon frame scheduling in the drivers (scan one channel at a time between Beacon frames). Furthermore, such scanning takes quite a bit longer time and existing userspace applications would be likely to timeout while waiting for the results. For now, just refuse requests for new scans (SIOCSIWSCAN) when in AP mode. In practice, this moves the rejection from iwl* drivers into mac80211 to make it apply to every mac80211-based driver. This issue shows up in associated stations getting disconnected when something (e.g., Network Manager) requests a scan while the interface is in AP mode. When doing this continuously (e.g., NM does it every 120 seconds), the network gets close to useless. 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>
* mac80211: remove fragmentation offload functionalityJohannes Berg2008-12-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | There's no driver that actually does fragmentation on the device, and the callback is buggy (when it returns an error, mac80211's fragmentation status is changed so reading the frag threshold from userspace reads the new value despite the error). Let's just remove it, if we really find some hardware supporting it we can add it back later. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211: handle SIOCGIWMODE/SIOCSIWMODEJohannes Berg2008-12-05
| | | | | | | further reducing wext code in mac80211. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211: handle SIOCGIWNAMEJohannes Berg2008-12-05
| | | | | | | This patch moves the SIOCGIWNAME handling from mac80211 to cfg80211. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2008-11-27
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/hp-plus.c drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/recv.c net/wireless/reg.c
| * mac80211 : Fix setting ad-hoc mode and non-ibss channelAbhijeet Kolekar2008-11-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch fixes the kernel trace when user tries to set ad-hoc mode on non IBSS channel. e.g iwconfig wlan0 chan 36 mode ad-hoc Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: remove SSID driver codeJohannes Berg2008-11-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the SSID from the driver API since now there is no driver that requires knowing the SSID and I think it's unlikely that any hardware design that does require the SSID will play well with mac80211. This also removes support for setting the SSID in master mode which will require a patch to hostapd to not try. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: make use of regulatory tx power settings on change of tx powerLuis R. Rodriguez2008-10-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We do not know what max power to allow until a device is targeting a channel, therefore only allow changing tx power if a channel is defined. Also make use of the channel's max power setting as defined by regulatory rules before allowing the user to use the requested power setting. If the user asked us to figure it out we use the max allowed by regulatory. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211/drivers: rewrite the rate control APIJohannes Berg2008-10-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | So after the previous changes we were still unhappy with how convoluted the API is and decided to make things simpler for everybody. This completely changes the rate control API, now taking into account 802.11n with MCS rates and more control, most drivers don't support that though. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: make retry limits part of hw configJohannes Berg2008-10-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of having a separate callback, use the HW config callback with a new flag to change retry limits. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: introduce hw config change flagsJohannes Berg2008-10-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This makes mac80211 notify the driver which configuration actually changed, e.g. channel etc. No driver changes, this is just plumbing, driver authors are expected to act on this if they want to. Also remove the HW CONFIG debug printk, it's incorrect, often we configure something else. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | 802.11: clean up/fix HT supportJohannes Berg2008-10-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch cleans up a number of things: * the unusable definition of the HT capabilities/HT information information elements * variable names that are hard to understand * mac80211: move ieee80211_handle_ht to ht.c and remove the unused enable_ht parameter * mac80211: fix bug with MCS rate 32 in ieee80211_handle_ht * mac80211: fix bug with casting the result of ieee80211_bss_get_ie to an information element _contents_ rather than the whole element, add size checking (another out-of-bounds access bug fixed!) * mac80211: remove some unused return values in favour of BUG_ON checking * a few minor other things Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: clean up ieee80211_hw_config errorsJohannes Berg2008-10-31
|/ | | | | | | | | Warn when ieee80211_hw_config returns an error, it shouldn't happen; remove a number of printks that would happen in such a case and one printk that is user-triggerable. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* ath9k/mac80211: disallow fragmentation in ath9k, report to userspaceJohannes Berg2008-10-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As I've reported, ath9k currently fails utterly when fragmentation is enabled. This makes ath9k "support" hardware fragmentation by not supporting fragmentation at all to avoid the double-free issue. The patch also changes mac80211 to report errors from the driver operation to userspace. That hack in ath9k should be removed once the rate control algorithm it has is fixed, and we can at that time consider removing the hw fragmentation support entirely since it's not used by any driver. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: move txrate_idx into RC algorithmsJohannes Berg2008-09-15
| | | | | | | | | | The sta_info->txrate_idx member isn't used by all RC algorithms in the way it was intended to be used, move it into those that require it (only PID) and keep track in the core code of which rate was last used for reporting to userspace and the mesh MLME. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: use nl80211 interface typesJohannes Berg2008-09-15
| | | | | | | | | | There's really no reason for mac80211 to be using its own interface type defines. Use the nl80211 types and simplify the configuration code a bit: there's no need to translate them any more now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: clean up scan namespaceJohannes Berg2008-09-15
| | | | | | | | | Most of the scan functions are called ieee80211_sta_scan_* or similar, make clean it up so they are all just called ieee80211_scan_*. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: move ieee80211_set_freq to utilsJohannes Berg2008-09-15
| | | | | | | It really doesn't belong into the wireless extensions code. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: cleanup mlme state namespaceTomas Winkler2008-08-22
| | | | | | | | This patch move add STA_MLME to station mlme state defines. Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* replace net_device arguments with ieee80211_{local,sub_if_data} as appropriateJasper Bryant-Greene2008-08-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch replaces net_device arguments to mac80211 internal functions with ieee80211_{local,sub_if_data} as appropriate. It also does the same for many 802.11s mesh functions, and changes the mesh path table to be indexed on sub_if_data rather than net_device. If the mesh part needs to be a separate patch let me know, but since mesh uses a lot of mac80211 functions which were being converted anyway, the changes go hand-in-hand somewhat. This patch probably does not convert all the functions which could be converted, but it is a large chunk and followup patches will be provided. Signed-off-by: Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper@amiton.co.nz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: revamp beacon configurationJohannes Berg2008-07-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch changes mac80211's beacon configuration handling to never pass skbs to the driver directly but rather always require the driver to use ieee80211_beacon_get(). Additionally, it introduces "change flags" on the config_interface() call to enable drivers to figure out what is changing. Finally, it removes the beacon_update() driver callback in favour of having IBSS beacon delivered by ieee80211_beacon_get() as well. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: push interface checks downJohannes Berg2008-07-14
| | | | | | | | | This patch pushes the "netif_running()" and "same type as before" checks down into ieee80211_if_change_type() to centralise the logic instead of duplicating it for cfg80211 and wext. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: revamp virtual interface handlingJohannes Berg2008-07-14
| | | | | | | | | This patch revamps the virtual interface handling and makes the code much easier to follow. Fewer functions, better names, less spaghetti code. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: make master netdev handling saneJohannes Berg2008-07-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, almost every interface type has a 'bss' pointer pointing to BSS information. This BSS information, however, is for a _local_ BSS, not for the BSS we joined, so having it on a STA mode interface makes little sense, but now they have it pointing to the master device, which is an AP mode virtual interface. However, except for some bitrate control data, this pointer is only used in AP/VLAN modes (for power saving stations.) Overall, it is not necessary to even have the master netdev be a valid virtual interface, and it doesn't have to be on the list of interfaces either. This patch changes the master netdev to be special, it now - no longer is on the list of virtual interfaces, which lets me remove a lot of tests for that - no longer has sub_if_data attached, since that isn't used Additionally, this patch changes some vlan/ap mode handling that is related to these 'bss' pointers described above (but in the VLAN case they actually make sense because there they point to the AP they belong to); it also adds some debugging code to IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF to validate it is not called on the master netdev any more. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: power management wext hooksSamuel Ortiz2008-07-14
| | | | | | | | | This patch implements the power management routines wireless extensions for mac80211. For now we only support switching PS mode between on and off. Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: add support for iwconfig wlanX frag autoEmmanuel Grumbach2008-07-08
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2008-07-06
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
| * mac80211: don't accept WEP keys other than WEP40 and WEP104Emmanuel Grumbach2008-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch makes mac80211 refuse a WEP key whose length is not WEP40 nor WEP104. Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: add phy information to giwnameTomas Winkler2008-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch add phy information to giwname. Quoting: It's not useless, it's supposed to tell you about the protocol capability of the device, like "IEEE 802.11b" or "IEEE 802.11abg" Jean Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: update the authentication methodEmmanuel Grumbach2008-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch updates the authentication method upon giwencode ioctl. Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: don't return -EINVAL upon iwconfig wlan0 rts autoEmmanuel Grumbach2008-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch avoids returning -EINVAL upon iwconfig wlan0 rts auto. If rts->fixed is 0, then we should choose a default value instead of failing. Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | wext: Emit event stream entries correctly when compat.David S. Miller2008-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Three major portions to this change: 1) Add IW_EV_COMPAT_LCP_LEN, IW_EV_COMPAT_POINT_OFF, and IW_EV_COMPAT_POINT_LEN helper defines. 2) Delete iw_stream_check_add_*(), they are unused. 3) Add iw_request_info argument to iwe_stream_add_*(), and use it to size the event and pointer lengths correctly depending upon whether IW_REQUEST_FLAG_COMPAT is set or not. 4) The mechanical transformations to the drivers and wireless stack bits to get the iw_request_info passed down into the routines modified in #3. Also, explicit references to IW_EV_LCP_LEN are replaced with iwe_stream_lcp_len(info). With a lot of help and bug fixes from Masakazu Mokuno. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2008-06-16
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/Kconfig drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.c net/sctp/protocol.c
| * mac80211 : fix for iwconfig in ad-hoc modeAbhijeet Kolekar2008-06-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The patch checks interface status, if it is in IBSS_JOINED mode show cell id it is associated with. Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2008-06-10
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/tg3.c drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
| * mac80211: Checking IBSS support while changing channel in ad-hoc modeAssaf Krauss2008-06-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a check to the set_channel flow. When attempting to change the channel while in IBSS mode, and the new channel does not support IBSS mode, the flow return with an error value with no consequences on the mac80211 and driver state. Signed-off-by: Assaf Krauss <assaf.krauss@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
| * mac80211 : Fixes the status message for iwconfigAbhijeet Kolekar2008-05-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | iwconfig was showing incorrect status messages when disassociated. Patch fixes this by always checking for association status in ioctl calls for getting ap address. Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2008-05-26
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/cpmac.c net/mac80211/mlme.c
| * mac80211: don't claim iwspy supportJohannes Berg2008-05-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We removed iwspy support a very long time ago because it is useless, but forgot to stop claiming to support it. Apparently, nobody cares, but remove it nonetheless. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: use hardware flags for signal/noise unitsBruno Randolf2008-05-14
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | trying to clean up the signal/noise code. the previous code in mac80211 had confusing names for the related variables, did not have much definition of what units of signal and noise were provided and used implicit mechanisms from the wireless extensions. this patch introduces hardware capability flags to let the hardware specify clearly if it can provide signal and noise level values and which units it can provide. this also anticipates possible new units like RCPI in the future. for signal: IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC - unspecified, unknown, hw specific IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB - dB difference to unspecified reference point IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM - dBm, difference to 1mW for noise we currently only have dBm: IEEE80211_HW_NOISE_DBM - dBm, difference to 1mW if IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC or IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB is used the driver has to provide the maximum value (max_signal) it reports in order for applications to make sense of the signal values. i tried my best to find out for each driver what it can provide and update it but i'm not sure (?) for some of them and used the more conservative guess in doubt. this can be fixed easily after this patch has been merged by changing the hardware flags of the driver. DRIVER SIGNAL MAX NOISE QUAL ----------------------------------------------------------------- adm8211 unspec(?) 100 n/a missing at76_usb unspec(?) (?) unused missing ath5k dBm dBm percent rssi b43legacy dBm dBm percent jssi(?) b43 dBm dBm percent jssi(?) iwl-3945 dBm dBm percent snr+more iwl-4965 dBm dBm percent snr+more p54 unspec 127 n/a missing rt2x00 dBm n/a percent rssi+tx/rx frame success rt2400 dBm n/a rt2500pci dBm n/a rt2500usb dBm n/a rt61pci dBm n/a rt73usb dBm n/a rtl8180 unspec(?) 65 n/a (?) rtl8187 unspec(?) 65 (?) noise(?) zd1211 dB(?) 100 n/a percent drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: allow WDS modeJohannes Berg2008-04-16
| | | | | | | | This allows creating interfaces in WDS mode or switching existing ones into WDS mode (both via cfg80211 and wext.) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: further RCU fixesJohannes Berg2008-04-16
| | | | | | | | There were a few more instances of sta_info_get calls not being protected by RCU, fix them. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: rename filesJohannes Berg2008-04-08
This patch renames all mac80211 files (except ieee80211_i.h) to get rid of the useless ieee80211_ prefix. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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