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  1. 14 Jun, 2010 2 commits
  2. 03 Jun, 2010 1 commit
  3. 07 May, 2010 1 commit
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      mac80211: improve HT channel handling · 0aaffa9b
      Johannes Berg authored
      Currently, when one interface switches HT mode,
      all others will follow along. This is clearly
      undesirable, since the new one might switch to
      no-HT while another one is operating in HT.
      
      Address this issue by keeping track of the HT
      mode per interface, and allowing only changes
      that are compatible, i.e. switching into HT40+
      is not possible when another interface is in
      HT40-, in that case the second one needs to
      fall back to HT20.
      
      Also, to allow drivers to know what's going on,
      store the per-interface HT mode (channel type)
      in the virtual interface's bss_conf.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      0aaffa9b
  4. 05 May, 2010 1 commit
  5. 03 May, 2010 1 commit
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      mac80211: improve IBSS scanning · be4a4b6a
      Johannes Berg authored
      When IBSS is fixed to a frequency, it can still
      scan to try to find the right BSSID. This makes
      sense if the BSSID isn't also fixed, but it need
      not scan all channels -- just one is sufficient.
      Make it do that by moving the scan setup code to
      ieee80211_request_internal_scan() and include
      a channel variable setting.
      
      Note that this can be further improved to start
      the IBSS right away if both frequency and BSSID
      are fixed.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      be4a4b6a
  6. 30 Apr, 2010 1 commit
  7. 28 Apr, 2010 1 commit
  8. 30 Mar, 2010 1 commit
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking... · 5a0e3ad6
      Tejun Heo authored
      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
      
      percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
      included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
      in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
      universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
      
      percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
      this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
      headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
      needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
      used as the basis of conversion.
      
        http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
      
      The script does the followings.
      
      * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
        only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
        gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
      
      * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
        blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
        to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
        core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
        alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
        doesn't seem to be any matching order.
      
      * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
        because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
        an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
        file.
      
      The conversion was done in the following steps.
      
      1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
         over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
         and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
         files.
      
      2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
         some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
         embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
         inclusions to around 150 files.
      
      3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
         from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
      
      4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
         e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
         APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
      
      5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
         editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
         files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
         inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
         wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
         slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
         necessary.
      
      6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
      
      7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
         were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
         distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
         more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
         build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
      
         * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
         * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
         * s390 SMP allmodconfig
         * alpha SMP allmodconfig
         * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
      
      8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
         a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
      
      Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
      6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
      If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
      headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
      the specific arch.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Guess-its-ok-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      5a0e3ad6
  9. 16 Mar, 2010 2 commits
  10. 09 Mar, 2010 1 commit
    • Bruno Randolf's avatar
      mac80211: fix rates setup on IBSS merge · b4d59a93
      Bruno Randolf authored
      when an IBSS merge happened, the supported rates for the newly added station
      were left empty, causing the rate control module to be initialized with only
      the basic rates.
      
      also the section of the ibss code which deals with updating supported rates for
      an already existing station fails to inform the rate control module about the
      new rates. as i don't know how to fix this (minstrel does not have an update
      function), i have just added a comment for now.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      b4d59a93
  11. 08 Feb, 2010 2 commits
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      mac80211: allow station add/remove to sleep · 34e89507
      Johannes Berg authored
      Many drivers would like to sleep during station
      addition and removal, and currently have a high
      complexity there from not being able to.
      
      This introduces two new callbacks sta_add() and
      sta_remove() that drivers can implement instead
      of using sta_notify() and that can sleep, and
      the new sta_add() callback is also allowed to
      fail.
      
      The reason we didn't do this previously is that
      the IBSS code wants to insert stations from the
      RX path, which is a tasklet, so cannot sleep.
      This patch will keep the station allocation in
      that path, but moves adding the station to the
      driver out of line. Since the addition can now
      fail, we can have IBSS peer structs the driver
      rejected -- in that case we still talk to the
      station but never tell the driver about it in
      the control.sta pointer. If there will ever be
      a driver that has a low limit on the number of
      stations and that cannot talk to any stations
      that are not known to it, we need to do come up
      with a new strategy of handling larger IBSSs,
      maybe quicker expiry or rejecting peers.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      34e89507
    • Benoit Papillault's avatar
      mac80211: Fix probe request filtering in IBSS mode · 0da780c2
      Benoit Papillault authored
      We only reply to probe request if either the requested SSID is the
      broadcast SSID or if the requested SSID matches our own SSID. This
      latter case was not properly handled since we were replying to different
      SSID with the same length as our own SSID.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      0da780c2
  12. 19 Jan, 2010 2 commits
  13. 28 Dec, 2009 3 commits
  14. 21 Dec, 2009 2 commits
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      mac80211: reduce reliance on netdev · 47846c9b
      Johannes Berg authored
      For bluetooth 3, we will most likely not have
      a netdev for a virtual interface (sdata), so
      prepare for that by reducing the reliance on
      having a netdev. This patch moves the name
      and address fields into the sdata struct and
      uses them from there all over. Some work is
      needed to keep them sync'ed, but that's not
      a lot of work and in slow paths anyway.
      
      In doing so, this also reduces the number of
      pointer dereferences in many places, because
      of things like sdata->dev->dev_addr becoming
      sdata->vif.addr.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      47846c9b
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      mac80211: make station management completely depend on vif · abe60632
      Johannes Berg authored
      The station management currently uses the virtual
      interface, but you cannot add the same station to
      multiple virtual interfaces if you're communicating
      with it in multiple ways.
      
      This restriction should be lifted so that in the
      future we can, for instance, support bluetooth 3
      with an access point that mac80211 is already
      associated to.
      
      We can do that by requiring all sta_info_get users
      to provide the virtual interface and making the RX
      code aware that an address may match more than one
      station struct. Thanks to the previous patches this
      one isn't all that large and except for the RX and
      TX status paths changes has low complexity.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      abe60632
  15. 18 Nov, 2009 1 commit
  16. 04 Nov, 2009 1 commit
    • Sujith's avatar
      mac80211: Fix IBSS merge · 450aae3d
      Sujith authored
      Currently, in IBSS mode, a single creator would go into
      a loop trying to merge/scan. This happens because the IBSS timer is
      rearmed on finishing a scan and the subsequent
      timer invocation requests another scan immediately.
      
      This patch fixes this issue by checking if we have just completed
      a scan run trying to merge with other IBSS networks.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      450aae3d
  17. 30 Oct, 2009 1 commit
  18. 27 Oct, 2009 1 commit
    • Reinette Chatre's avatar
      mac80211: fix ibss joining · d419b9f0
      Reinette Chatre authored
      Recent commit "mac80211: fix logic error ibss merge bssid check" fixed
      joining of ibss cell when static bssid is provided. In this case
      ifibss->bssid is set before the cell is joined and comparing that address
      to a bss should thus always succeed. Unfortunately this change broke the
      other case of joining a ibss cell without providing a static bssid where
      the value of ifibss->bssid is not set before the cell is joined.
      
      Since ifibss->bssid may be set before or after joining the cell we do not
      learn anything by comparing it to a known bss. Remove this check.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      d419b9f0
  19. 12 Oct, 2009 2 commits
  20. 04 Aug, 2009 1 commit
    • Luis R. Rodriguez's avatar
      mac80211: redefine usage of the mac80211 workqueue · 42935eca
      Luis R. Rodriguez authored
      The mac80211 workqueue exists to enable mac80211 and drivers
      to queue their own work on a single threaded workqueue. mac80211
      takes care to flush the workqueue during suspend but we never
      really had requirements on drivers for how they should use
      the workqueue in consideration for suspend.
      
      We extend mac80211 to document how the mac80211 workqueue should
      be used, how it should not be used and finally move raw access to
      the workqueue to mac80211 only. Drivers and mac80211 use helpers
      to queue work onto the mac80211 workqueue:
      
        * ieee80211_queue_work()
        * ieee80211_queue_delayed_work()
      
      These helpers will now warn if mac80211 already completed its
      suspend cycle and someone is trying to queue work. mac80211
      flushes the mac80211 workqueue prior to suspend a few times,
      but we haven't taken the care to ensure drivers won't add more
      work after suspend. To help with this we add a warning when
      someone tries to add work and mac80211 already completed the
      suspend cycle.
      
      Drivers should ensure they cancel any work or delayed work
      in the mac80211 stop() callback.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      42935eca
  21. 27 Jul, 2009 1 commit
  22. 24 Jul, 2009 1 commit
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      cfg80211: rework key operation · fffd0934
      Johannes Berg authored
      This reworks the key operation in cfg80211, and now only
      allows, from userspace, configuring keys (via nl80211)
      after the connection has been established (in managed
      mode), the IBSS been joined (in IBSS mode), at any time
      (in AP[_VLAN] modes) or never for all the other modes.
      
      In order to do shared key authentication correctly, it
      is now possible to give a WEP key to the AUTH command.
      To configure static WEP keys, these are given to the
      CONNECT or IBSS_JOIN command directly, for a userspace
      SME it is assumed it will configure it properly after
      the connection has been established.
      
      Since mac80211 used to check the default key in IBSS
      mode to see whether or not the network is protected,
      it needs an update in that area, as well as an update
      to make use of the WEP key passed to auth() for shared
      key authentication.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      fffd0934
  23. 10 Jul, 2009 1 commit
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      mac80211: push rx status into skb->cb · f1d58c25
      Johannes Berg authored
      Within mac80211, we often need to copy the rx status into
      skb->cb. This is wasteful, as drivers could be building it
      in there to start with. This patch changes the API so that
      drivers are expected to pass the RX status in skb->cb, now
      accessible as IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb). It also updates all
      drivers to pass the rx status in there, but only by making
      them memcpy() it into place before the call to the receive
      function (ieee80211_rx(_irqsafe)). Each driver can now be
      optimised on its own schedule.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      f1d58c25
  24. 20 May, 2009 2 commits
  25. 13 May, 2009 2 commits
  26. 06 May, 2009 5 commits
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      mac80211: tell driver when idle · 5cff20e6
      Johannes Berg authored
      When we aren't doing anything in mac80211, we can turn off
      much of the hardware, depending on the driver/hw. Not doing
      anything, aka being idle, means:
      
       * no monitor interfaces
       * no AP/mesh/wds interfaces
       * any station interfaces are in DISABLED state
       * any IBSS interfaces aren't trying to be in a network
       * we aren't trying to scan
      
      By creating a new function that verifies these conditions and calling
      it at strategic points where the states of those conditions change,
      we can easily make mac80211 tell the driver when we are idle to save
      power.
      
      Additionally, this fixes a small quirk where a recalculated powersave
      state is passed to the driver even if the hardware is about to stopped
      completely.
      
      This patch intentionally doesn't touch radio_enabled because that is
      currently implemented to be a soft rfkill which is inappropriate here
      when we need to be able to wake up with low latency.
      
      One thing I'm not entirely sure about is this:
      
        phy0: device no longer idle - in use
        wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:11:24:91:07:4d try 1
        wlan0 direct probe responded
        wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:11:24:91:07:4d
        wlan0: authenticated
      > phy0: device now idle
      > phy0: device no longer idle - in use
        wlan0: associate with AP 00:11:24:91:07:4d
        wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:11:24:91:07:4d (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=1)
        wlan0: associated
      
      Is it appropriate to go into idle state for a short time when we have
      just authenticated, but not associated yet? This happens only with the
      userspace SME, because we cannot really know how long it will wait
      before asking us to associate. Would going idle after a short timeout
      be more appropriate? We may need to revisit this, depending on what
      happens.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      5cff20e6
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      mac80211: add driver ops wrappers · 24487981
      Johannes Berg authored
      In order to later add tracing or verifications to the driver
      calls mac80211 makes, this patch adds static inline wrappers
      for all operations.
      
      All calls are now written as
      
      	drv_<op>(local, ...);
      
      instead of
      
      	local->ops-><op>(&local->hw, ...);
      
      Where necessary, the wrappers also do existence checking and
      return default values as appropriate.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      24487981
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      mac80211: unify config_interface and bss_info_changed · 2d0ddec5
      Johannes Berg authored
      The config_interface method is a little strange, it contains the
      BSSID and beacon updates, while bss_info_changed contains most
      other BSS information for each interface. This patch removes
      config_interface and rolls all the information it previously
      passed to drivers into bss_info_changed.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      2d0ddec5
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      mac80211: clean up beacon interval settings · 57c4d7b4
      Johannes Berg authored
      We currently have two beacon interval configuration knobs:
      hw.conf.beacon_int and vif.bss_info.beacon_int. This is
      rather confusing, even though the former is used when we
      beacon ourselves and the latter when we are associated to
      an AP.
      
      This just deprecates the hw.conf.beacon_int setting in favour
      of always using vif.bss_info.beacon_int. Since it touches all
      the beaconing IBSS code anyway, we can also add support for
      the cfg80211 IBSS beacon interval configuration easily.
      
      NOTE: The hw.conf.beacon_int setting is retained for now due
            to drivers still using it -- I couldn't untangle all
            drivers, some are updated in this patch.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      57c4d7b4
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      mac80211: fix scan races and rework scanning · f3b85252
      Johannes Berg authored
      There are some places marked
      	/* XXX maybe racy? */
      and they really are racy because there's no locking.
      
      This patch reworks much of the scan code, and introduces proper
      locking for the scan request as well as the internal scanning
      (which is necessary for IBSS/managed modes). Helper functions
      are added to call the scanning code whenever necessary. The
      scan deferring is changed to simply queue the scanning work
      instead of trying to start the scan in place, the scanning work
      will then take care of the rest.
      
      Also, currently when internal scans are requested for an interface
      that is trying to associate, we reject such scans. This was not
      intended, the mlme code has provisions to scan twice when it can't
      find the BSS to associate with right away; this has never worked
      properly. Fix this by not rejecting internal scan requests for an
      interface that is associating.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      f3b85252