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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/net/cfg80211.h, branch v3.10.13</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>cfg80211: introduce critical protocol indication from user-space</title>
<updated>2013-04-22T13:48:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arend van Spriel</name>
<email>arend@broadcom.com</email>
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<published>2013-04-18T13:49:00+00:00</published>
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Some protocols need a more reliable connection to complete
successful in reasonable time. This patch adds a user-space
API to indicate the wireless driver that a critical protocol
is about to commence and when it is done, using nl80211 primitives
NL80211_CMD_CRIT_PROTOCOL_START and NL80211_CRIT_PROTOCOL_STOP.

There can be only on critical protocol session started per
registered cfg80211 device.

The driver can support this by implementing the cfg80211 callbacks
.crit_proto_start() and .crit_proto_stop(). Examples of protocols
that can benefit from this are DHCP, EAPOL, APIPA. Exactly how the
link can/should be made more reliable is up to the driver. Things
to consider are avoid scanning, no multi-channel operations, and
alter coexistence schemes.

Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts &lt;pieterpg@broadcom.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin &lt;frankyl@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel &lt;arend@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Some protocols need a more reliable connection to complete
successful in reasonable time. This patch adds a user-space
API to indicate the wireless driver that a critical protocol
is about to commence and when it is done, using nl80211 primitives
NL80211_CMD_CRIT_PROTOCOL_START and NL80211_CRIT_PROTOCOL_STOP.

There can be only on critical protocol session started per
registered cfg80211 device.

The driver can support this by implementing the cfg80211 callbacks
.crit_proto_start() and .crit_proto_stop(). Examples of protocols
that can benefit from this are DHCP, EAPOL, APIPA. Exactly how the
link can/should be made more reliable is up to the driver. Things
to consider are avoid scanning, no multi-channel operations, and
alter coexistence schemes.

Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts &lt;pieterpg@broadcom.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin &lt;frankyl@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel &lt;arend@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<title>cfg80211: add ieee80211_operating_class_to_band</title>
<updated>2013-04-16T13:29:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-01T15:00:55+00:00</published>
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This function converts a (global only!) operating
class to an internal band identifier. This will
be needed for extended channel switch support.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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This function converts a (global only!) operating
class to an internal band identifier. This will
be needed for extended channel switch support.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cfg80211: Document update_ft_ies() cfg80211_ops</title>
<updated>2013-03-25T09:21:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jouni Malinen</name>
<email>j@w1.fi</email>
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<published>2013-03-25T09:15:59+00:00</published>
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This was forgotten from the commit that added support for FT
operations with drivers that implement SME.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen &lt;j@w1.fi&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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This was forgotten from the commit that added support for FT
operations with drivers that implement SME.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen &lt;j@w1.fi&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cfg80211: rename mesh station types</title>
<updated>2013-03-06T15:36:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Pedersen</name>
<email>thomas@cozybit.com</email>
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<published>2013-03-04T21:06:11+00:00</published>
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The mesh station types used to refer to whether the
station was secure or nonsecure. Really the salient
information is whether it is managed by the kernel or
userspace

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen &lt;thomas@cozybit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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The mesh station types used to refer to whether the
station was secure or nonsecure. Really the salient
information is whether it is managed by the kernel or
userspace

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen &lt;thomas@cozybit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<title>nl80211: explicit userspace MPM</title>
<updated>2013-03-06T15:36:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Pedersen</name>
<email>thomas@cozybit.com</email>
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<published>2013-03-04T21:06:10+00:00</published>
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Secure mesh had the implicit requirement that the Mesh
Peering Management entity be in userspace.  However
userspace might want to implement an open MPM as well, so
specify a mesh setup parameter to indicate this.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen &lt;thomas@cozybit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Secure mesh had the implicit requirement that the Mesh
Peering Management entity be in userspace.  However
userspace might want to implement an open MPM as well, so
specify a mesh setup parameter to indicate this.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen &lt;thomas@cozybit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<title>cfg80211: Extend support for IEEE 802.11r Fast BSS Transition</title>
<updated>2013-03-06T15:35:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jouni Malinen</name>
<email>jouni@qca.qualcomm.com</email>
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<published>2013-02-27T15:14:27+00:00</published>
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Add NL80211_CMD_UPDATE_FT_IES to support update of FT IEs to the WLAN
driver and NL80211_CMD_FT_EVENT to send FT events from the WLAN driver.
This will carry the target AP's MAC address along with the relevant
Information Elements. This event is used to report received FT IEs
(MDIE, FTIE, RSN IE, TIE, RICIE). These changes allow FT to be supported
with drivers that use an internal SME instead of user space option (like
FT implementation in wpa_supplicant with mac80211-based drivers).

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen &lt;jouni@qca.qualcomm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Add NL80211_CMD_UPDATE_FT_IES to support update of FT IEs to the WLAN
driver and NL80211_CMD_FT_EVENT to send FT events from the WLAN driver.
This will carry the target AP's MAC address along with the relevant
Information Elements. This event is used to report received FT IEs
(MDIE, FTIE, RSN IE, TIE, RICIE). These changes allow FT to be supported
with drivers that use an internal SME instead of user space option (like
FT implementation in wpa_supplicant with mac80211-based drivers).

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen &lt;jouni@qca.qualcomm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cfg80211: add ability to override VHT capabilities</title>
<updated>2013-03-06T15:35:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
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<published>2013-02-21T16:36:01+00:00</published>
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For testing it's sometimes useful to be able to
override certain VHT capability advertisement,
add the ability to do that in cfg80211.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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For testing it's sometimes useful to be able to
override certain VHT capability advertisement,
add the ability to do that in cfg80211.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cfg80211: comprehensively check station changes</title>
<updated>2013-03-06T15:35:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
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<published>2013-02-14T23:48:33+00:00</published>
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The station change API isn't being checked properly before
drivers are called, and as a result it is difficult to see
what should be allowed and what not.

In order to comprehensively check the API parameters parse
everything first, and then have the driver call a function
(cfg80211_check_station_change()) with the additionally
information about the kind of station that is being changed;
this allows the function to make better decisions than the
old code could.

While at it, also add a few checks, particularly in mesh
and clarify the TDLS station lifetime in documentation.

To be able to reduce a few checks, ignore any flag set bits
when the mask isn't set, they shouldn't be applied then.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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The station change API isn't being checked properly before
drivers are called, and as a result it is difficult to see
what should be allowed and what not.

In order to comprehensively check the API parameters parse
everything first, and then have the driver call a function
(cfg80211_check_station_change()) with the additionally
information about the kind of station that is being changed;
this allows the function to make better decisions than the
old code could.

While at it, also add a few checks, particularly in mesh
and clarify the TDLS station lifetime in documentation.

To be able to reduce a few checks, ignore any flag set bits
when the mask isn't set, they shouldn't be applied then.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cfg80211: constify station parameter pointers</title>
<updated>2013-03-06T15:35:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
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<published>2013-02-14T22:33:40+00:00</published>
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All the pointers point right into the skb data and
not to anything that would be useful to change, so
make them const.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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All the pointers point right into the skb data and
not to anything that would be useful to change, so
make them const.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<title>cfg80211: clean up mesh plink station change API</title>
<updated>2013-03-06T15:35:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
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<published>2013-02-14T22:27:01+00:00</published>
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Make the ability to leave the plink_state unchanged not use a
magic -1 variable that isn't in the enum, but an explicit change
flag; reject invalid plink states or actions and move the needed
constants for plink actions to the right header file. Also
reject plink_state changes for non-mesh interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Make the ability to leave the plink_state unchanged not use a
magic -1 variable that isn't in the enum, but an explicit change
flag; reject invalid plink states or actions and move the needed
constants for plink actions to the right header file. Also
reject plink_state changes for non-mesh interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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