linux-toradex.git/net/mac80211/Makefile, branch v3.0.29

mac80211: add the minstrel_ht rate control algorithm

2010-06-02T20:12:59+00:00

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

cfg80211/mac80211: better channel handling

2010-05-07T18:55:50+00:00

Currently (all tested with hwsim) you can do stupid
things like setting up an AP on a certain channel,
then adding another virtual interface and making
that associate on another channel -- this will make
the beaconing to move channel but obviously without
the necessary IEs data update.

In order to improve this situation, first make the
configuration APIs (cfg80211 and nl80211) aware of
multi-channel operation -- we'll eventually need
that in the future anyway. There's one userland API
change and one API addition. The API change is that
now SET_WIPHY must be called with virtual interface
index rather than only wiphy index in order to take
effect for that interface -- luckily all current
users (hostapd) do that. For monitor interfaces, the
old setting is preserved, but monitors are always
slaved to other devices anyway so no guarantees.

The second userland API change is the introduction
of a per virtual interface SET_CHANNEL command, that
hostapd should use going forward to make it easier
to understand what's going on (it can automatically
detect a kernel with this command).

Other than mac80211, no existing cfg80211 drivers
are affected by this change because they only allow
a single virtual interface.

mac80211, however, now needs to be aware that the
channel settings are per interface now, and needs
to disallow (for now) real multi-channel operation,
which is another important part of this patch.

One of the immediate benefits is that you can now
start hostapd to operate on a hardware that already
has a connection on another virtual interface, as
long as you specify the same channel.

Note that two things are left unhandled (this is an
improvement -- not a complete fix):

 * different HT/no-HT modes

   currently you could start an HT AP and then
   connect to a non-HT network on the same channel
   which would configure the hardware for no HT;
   that can be fixed fairly easily

 * CSA

   An AP we're connected to on a virtual interface
   might indicate switching channels, and in that
   case we would follow it, regardless of how many
   other interfaces are operating; this requires
   more effort to fix but is pretty rare after all

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: Generalize off-channel operation helpers from scan code

2009-12-28T21:55:01+00:00

The off-channel operations for going into power save mode (station
mode) or stop beaconing (AP/IBSS) are not limited to scanning. Move
these into a separate file and allow them to be used for other
purposes, too.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: generalise work handling

2009-12-28T21:54:55+00:00

In order to use auth/assoc for different purposes
other than MLME, it needs to be split up. For other
purposes, a generic work handling (potentially on
another channel) will be useful.

To achieve that, this patch moves much of the MLME
work handling out of mlme into a new work API. The
API can currently handle probing a specific AP,
authentication and association. The MLME previously
handled probe/authentication as one step and will
continue to do so, but they are separate in the new
work handling.

Work items are RCU-managed to be able to check for
existence of an item for a specific frame in the RX
path, but they can be re-used which the MLME right
now will do for its combined probe/auth step.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: move TX status handling

2009-11-18T22:09:27+00:00

It's enough code to have its own file, I think.
Especially since I'm going to add to it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

cfg80211: self-contained wext handling where possible

2009-07-29T19:46:20+00:00

Finally! This is what you've all been waiting for!

This patch makes cfg80211 take care of wext emulation
_completely_ by itself, drivers that don't need things
cfg80211 doesn't do yet don't even need to be aware of
wireless extensions.
This means we can also clean up mac80211's and iwm's
Kconfig and make it possible to build them w/o wext
now!

		RIP wext.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: driver operation debugging

2009-07-24T19:05:06+00:00

This makes mac80211 use the event tracing framework
to log all operations as given to the driver. This
will need to be extended with more information, but
as a start it should be good.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: split IBSS/managed code

2009-02-27T19:51:42+00:00

This patch splits out the ibss code and data from managed (station) mode.
The reason to do this is to better separate the state machines, and have
the code be contained better so it gets easier to determine what exactly
a given change will affect, that in turn makes it easier to understand.

This is quite some churn, especially because I split sdata->u.sta into
sdata->u.mgd and sdata->u.ibss, but I think it's easier to maintain that
way. I've also shuffled around some code -- null function sending is only
applicable to managed interfaces so put that into that file, some other
functions are needed from various places so put them into util, and also
rearranged the prototypes in ieee80211_i.h accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: restructure HT code

2009-02-13T18:45:34+00:00

Create two new files, agg-tx.c and agg-rx.c to make it clearer
which code is common (ht.c) and which is specific (agg-*.c).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: add suspend/resume callbacks

2009-01-29T21:00:52+00:00

This patch introduces suspend and resume callbacks to mac80211,
allowing mac80211 to quiesce its state (bringing down interfaces,
removing keys, etc) in preparation for suspend.  cfg80211 will call
the suspend hook before the device suspend, and resume hook after
the device resume.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland 
Acked-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville