linux-toradex.git/Documentation/driver-api/80211, branch v4.16-rc6 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules cfg80211: remove unused function ieee80211_data_from_8023() 2017-09-21T09:42:02+00:00 Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com 2017-09-19T09:52:43+00:00 a6bcda44843c6dfced0fb973e2607c2a98addfa9 This function hasn't been used since the removal of iwmc3200wifi in 2012. It also appears to have a bug when qos=True, since then it'll copy uninitialized stack memory to the SKB. Just remove the function entirely. Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> 
This function hasn't been used since the removal of iwmc3200wifi
in 2012. It also appears to have a bug when qos=True, since then
it'll copy uninitialized stack memory to the SKB.

Just remove the function entirely.

Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
cfg80211: add intro to documentation 2017-03-31T07:15:46+00:00 Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com 2017-03-31T07:13:13+00:00 a339e4c226c0f2ea0c138e9ffc419874d370f57b This introduction section should be used in the documentation, do that at the beginning of the cfg80211 chapter. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> 
This introduction section should be used in the documentation,
do that at the beginning of the cfg80211 chapter.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
cfg80211: Use a structure to pass connect response params 2017-03-31T06:31:26+00:00 Vidyullatha Kanchanapally vkanchan@qti.qualcomm.com 2017-03-30T21:22:33+00:00 5349a0f7bfbdd7d81b8418c707dcd1439c714647 Currently the connect event from driver takes all the connection response parameters as arguments. With support for new features these response parameters can grow. Use a structure to pass these parameters rather than passing them as function arguments. Signed-off-by: Vidyullatha Kanchanapally <vkanchan@qti.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com> [add to documentation] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> 
Currently the connect event from driver takes all the connection
response parameters as arguments. With support for new features these
response parameters can grow. Use a structure to pass these parameters
rather than passing them as function arguments.

Signed-off-by: Vidyullatha Kanchanapally <vkanchan@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
[add to documentation]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-davem-2017-01-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next 2017-01-14T17:02:15+00:00 David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net 2017-01-14T17:02:15+00:00 bb60b8b35a7350585dc4bc2847479cea47f139d4 Johannes Berg says: ==================== For 4.11, we seem to have more than in the past few releases: * socket owner support for connections, so when the wifi manager (e.g. wpa_supplicant) is killed, connections are torn down - wpa_supplicant is critical to managing certain operations, and can opt in to this where applicable * minstrel & minstrel_ht updates to be more efficient (time and space) * set wifi_acked/wifi_acked_valid for skb->destructor use in the kernel, which was already available to userspace * don't indicate new mesh peers that might be used if there's no room to add them * multicast-to-unicast support in mac80211, for better medium usage (since unicast frames can use *much* higher rates, by ~3 orders of magnitude) * add API to read channel (frequency) limitations from DT * add infrastructure to allow randomizing public action frames for MAC address privacy (still requires driver support) * many cleanups and small improvements/fixes across the board ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
Johannes Berg says:

====================
For 4.11, we seem to have more than in the past few releases:
 * socket owner support for connections, so when the wifi
   manager (e.g. wpa_supplicant) is killed, connections are
   torn down - wpa_supplicant is critical to managing certain
   operations, and can opt in to this where applicable
 * minstrel & minstrel_ht updates to be more efficient (time and space)
 * set wifi_acked/wifi_acked_valid for skb->destructor use in the
   kernel, which was already available to userspace
 * don't indicate new mesh peers that might be used if there's no
   room to add them
 * multicast-to-unicast support in mac80211, for better medium usage
   (since unicast frames can use *much* higher rates, by ~3 orders of
   magnitude)
 * add API to read channel (frequency) limitations from DT
 * add infrastructure to allow randomizing public action frames for
   MAC address privacy (still requires driver support)
 * many cleanups and small improvements/fixes across the board
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
docs: Move the 802.11 guide into the driver-api manual 2016-11-29T21:41:49+00:00 Jonathan Corbet corbet@lwn.net 2016-11-18T23:04:48+00:00 0bb33e25e5c91f69304f3799609a52354dca1af4 Put this documentation with the other driver docs and try to keep the top level reasonably clean. Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> 
Put this documentation with the other driver docs and try to keep the top
level reasonably clean.

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>