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<title>linux-toradex.git/net/mac80211/Makefile, branch v3.16</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: move TDLS code to another file</title>
<updated>2014-05-05T13:56:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arik Nemtsov</name>
<email>arik@wizery.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-01T07:17:28+00:00</published>
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With new additions planned, this code is getting too big for cfg.c.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov &lt;arikx.nemtsov@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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With new additions planned, this code is getting too big for cfg.c.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov &lt;arikx.nemtsov@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: mesh power save basics</title>
<updated>2013-02-04T17:57:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Porsch</name>
<email>marco@cozybit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-30T17:14:08+00:00</published>
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Add routines to
- maintain a PS mode for each peer and a non-peer PS mode
- indicate own PS mode in transmitted frames
- track neighbor STAs power modes
- buffer frames when neighbors are in PS mode
- add TIM and Awake Window IE to beacons
- release frames in Mesh Peer Service Periods

Add local_pm to sta_info to represent the link-specific power
mode at this station towards the remote station. When a peer
link is established, use the default power mode stored in mesh
config. Update the PS status if the peering status of a neighbor
changes.
Maintain a mesh power mode for non-peer mesh STAs. Set the
non-peer power mode to active mode during peering. Authenticated
mesh peering is currently not working when either node is
configured to be in power save mode.

Indicate the current power mode in transmitted frames. Use QoS
Nulls to indicate mesh power mode transitions.
For performance reasons, calls to the function setting the frame
flags are placed in HWMP routing routines, as there the STA
pointer is already available.

Add peer_pm to sta_info to represent the peer's link-specific
power mode towards the local station. Add nonpeer_pm to
represent the peer's power mode towards all non-peer stations.
Track power modes based on received frames.

Add the ps_data structure to ieee80211_if_mesh (for TIM map, PS
neighbor counter and group-addressed frame buffer).

Set WLAN_STA_PS flag for STA in PS mode to use the unicast frame
buffering routines in the tx path. Update num_sta_ps to buffer
and release group-addressed frames after DTIM beacons.

Announce the awake window duration in beacons if in light or
deep sleep mode towards any peer or non-peer. Create a TIM IE
similarly to AP mode and add it to mesh beacons. Parse received
Awake Window IEs and check TIM IEs for buffered frames.

Release frames towards peers in mesh Peer Service Periods. Use
the corresponding trigger frames and monitor the MPSP status.
Append a QoS Null as trigger frame if neccessary to properly end
the MPSP. Currently, in HT channels MPSPs behave imperfectly and
show large delay spikes and frame losses.

Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch &lt;marco@cozybit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ivan Bezyazychnyy &lt;ivan.bezyazychnyy@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Krinkin &lt;krinkin.m.u@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Add routines to
- maintain a PS mode for each peer and a non-peer PS mode
- indicate own PS mode in transmitted frames
- track neighbor STAs power modes
- buffer frames when neighbors are in PS mode
- add TIM and Awake Window IE to beacons
- release frames in Mesh Peer Service Periods

Add local_pm to sta_info to represent the link-specific power
mode at this station towards the remote station. When a peer
link is established, use the default power mode stored in mesh
config. Update the PS status if the peering status of a neighbor
changes.
Maintain a mesh power mode for non-peer mesh STAs. Set the
non-peer power mode to active mode during peering. Authenticated
mesh peering is currently not working when either node is
configured to be in power save mode.

Indicate the current power mode in transmitted frames. Use QoS
Nulls to indicate mesh power mode transitions.
For performance reasons, calls to the function setting the frame
flags are placed in HWMP routing routines, as there the STA
pointer is already available.

Add peer_pm to sta_info to represent the peer's link-specific
power mode towards the local station. Add nonpeer_pm to
represent the peer's power mode towards all non-peer stations.
Track power modes based on received frames.

Add the ps_data structure to ieee80211_if_mesh (for TIM map, PS
neighbor counter and group-addressed frame buffer).

Set WLAN_STA_PS flag for STA in PS mode to use the unicast frame
buffering routines in the tx path. Update num_sta_ps to buffer
and release group-addressed frames after DTIM beacons.

Announce the awake window duration in beacons if in light or
deep sleep mode towards any peer or non-peer. Create a TIM IE
similarly to AP mode and add it to mesh beacons. Parse received
Awake Window IEs and check TIM IEs for buffered frames.

Release frames towards peers in mesh Peer Service Periods. Use
the corresponding trigger frames and monitor the MPSP status.
Append a QoS Null as trigger frame if neccessary to properly end
the MPSP. Currently, in HT channels MPSPs behave imperfectly and
show large delay spikes and frame losses.

Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch &lt;marco@cozybit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ivan Bezyazychnyy &lt;ivan.bezyazychnyy@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Krinkin &lt;krinkin.m.u@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: VHT peer STA caps</title>
<updated>2012-10-17T09:02:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mahesh Palivela</name>
<email>maheshp@posedge.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-10T11:33:04+00:00</published>
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Save the AP's VHT capabilities (in managed
mode) and make them available to the driver
in the station information.

Unlike HT capabilities, they aren't restricted
to the common capabilities, so drivers must be
aware of their own capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Palivela &lt;maheshp@posedge.com&gt;
[fix endian conversion bug ...]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Save the AP's VHT capabilities (in managed
mode) and make them available to the driver
in the station information.

Unlike HT capabilities, they aren't restricted
to the common capabilities, so drivers must be
aware of their own capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Palivela &lt;maheshp@posedge.com&gt;
[fix endian conversion bug ...]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: rename driver-trace file</title>
<updated>2012-06-24T09:32:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-22T10:55:52+00:00</published>
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This file will contain more soon, so
rename it to just trace.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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This file will contain more soon, so
rename it to just trace.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: clean up debugging</title>
<updated>2012-06-24T09:32:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-22T09:29:50+00:00</published>
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There are a few things that make the logging and
debugging in mac80211 less useful than it should
be right now:
 * a lot of messages should be pr_info, not pr_debug
 * wholesale use of pr_debug makes it require *both*
   Kconfig and dynamic configuration
 * there are still a lot of ifdefs
 * the style is very inconsistent, sometimes the
   sdata-&gt;name is printed in front

Clean up everything, introducing new macros and
separating out the station MLME debugging into
a new Kconfig symbol.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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There are a few things that make the logging and
debugging in mac80211 less useful than it should
be right now:
 * a lot of messages should be pr_info, not pr_debug
 * wholesale use of pr_debug makes it require *both*
   Kconfig and dynamic configuration
 * there are still a lot of ifdefs
 * the style is very inconsistent, sometimes the
   sdata-&gt;name is printed in front

Clean up everything, introducing new macros and
separating out the station MLME debugging into
a new Kconfig symbol.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: unify SW/offload remain-on-channel</title>
<updated>2012-06-06T19:31:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-05T12:28:42+00:00</published>
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Redesign all the off-channel code, getting rid of
the generic off-channel work concept, replacing
it with a simple remain-on-channel list.

This fixes a number of small issues with the ROC
implementation:
 * offloaded remain-on-channel couldn't be queued,
   now we can queue it as well, if needed
 * in iwlwifi (the only user) offloaded ROC is
   mutually exclusive with scanning, use the new
   queue to handle that case -- I expect that it
   will later depend on a HW flag

The bigger issue though is that there's a bad bug
in the current implementation: if we get a mgmt
TX request while HW roc is active, and this new
request has a wait time, we actually schedule a
software ROC instead since we can't guarantee the
existing offloaded ROC will still be that long.
To fix this, the queuing mechanism was needed.

The queuing mechanism for offloaded ROC isn't yet
optimal, ideally we should add API to have the HW
extend the ROC if needed. We could add that later
but for now use a software implementation.

Overall, this unifies the behaviour between the
offloaded and software-implemented case as much
as possible.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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Redesign all the off-channel code, getting rid of
the generic off-channel work concept, replacing
it with a simple remain-on-channel list.

This fixes a number of small issues with the ROC
implementation:
 * offloaded remain-on-channel couldn't be queued,
   now we can queue it as well, if needed
 * in iwlwifi (the only user) offloaded ROC is
   mutually exclusive with scanning, use the new
   queue to handle that case -- I expect that it
   will later depend on a HW flag

The bigger issue though is that there's a bad bug
in the current implementation: if we get a mgmt
TX request while HW roc is active, and this new
request has a wait time, we actually schedule a
software ROC instead since we can't guarantee the
existing offloaded ROC will still be that long.
To fix this, the queuing mechanism was needed.

The queuing mechanism for offloaded ROC isn't yet
optimal, ideally we should add API to have the HW
extend the ROC if needed. We could add that later
but for now use a software implementation.

Overall, this unifies the behaviour between the
offloaded and software-implemented case as much
as possible.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: Implement mesh synchronization framework</title>
<updated>2012-04-10T19:20:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Javier Cardona</name>
<email>javier@cozybit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-31T18:31:32+00:00</published>
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This patch adds MBSS extensible synchronization framework (Sec.
13.13.2 of IEEE Std. 802.11-2012).

The framework is implemented via an ops table which defines the
following functions:

    rx_bcn_presp() - this is called every time a mesh beacon is
received.
    adjust_tbtt() - this is called immediately before a beacon is about
to be transmitted.

The default neighbor offset synchronization defined in the standard is
implemented.  We also provide template functions for vendor specific
methods.

When neighbor offset synchronization is active (which is the default)
mesh neighbors in the same MBSS will track timing offsets to each other
and compensate clock drift.

In our tests we observed that this mesh synchronization implementation
successfully corrected drifts between stations of ~2PPM while
introducing a jitter of ~20us.

It is also possible to test this framework on mac80211_hwsim simulated
phys to see how it behaves under different topologies, over poor links,
etc.

Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch &lt;marco.porsch@s2005.tu-chemnitz.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pavel Zubarev &lt;pavel.zubarev@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona &lt;javier@cozybit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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This patch adds MBSS extensible synchronization framework (Sec.
13.13.2 of IEEE Std. 802.11-2012).

The framework is implemented via an ops table which defines the
following functions:

    rx_bcn_presp() - this is called every time a mesh beacon is
received.
    adjust_tbtt() - this is called immediately before a beacon is about
to be transmitted.

The default neighbor offset synchronization defined in the standard is
implemented.  We also provide template functions for vendor specific
methods.

When neighbor offset synchronization is active (which is the default)
mesh neighbors in the same MBSS will track timing offsets to each other
and compensate clock drift.

In our tests we observed that this mesh synchronization implementation
successfully corrected drifts between stations of ~2PPM while
introducing a jitter of ~20us.

It is also possible to test this framework on mac80211_hwsim simulated
phys to see how it behaves under different topologies, over poor links,
etc.

Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch &lt;marco.porsch@s2005.tu-chemnitz.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pavel Zubarev &lt;pavel.zubarev@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona &lt;javier@cozybit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: redesign auth/assoc</title>
<updated>2012-02-06T19:50:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-20T12:55:27+00:00</published>
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This is the second part of the auth/assoc redesign,
the mac80211 part. This moves the auth/assoc code
out of the work abstraction and into the MLME, so
that we don't flip channels all the time etc.

The only downside is that when we are associated,
we need to drop the association in order to create
a connection to another AP, but for most drivers
this is actually desirable and the ability to do
was never used by any applications. If we want to
implement resource reservation with FT-OTA, we'd
probably best do it with explicit R-O-C in wpa_s.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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This is the second part of the auth/assoc redesign,
the mac80211 part. This moves the auth/assoc code
out of the work abstraction and into the MLME, so
that we don't flip channels all the time etc.

The only downside is that when we are associated,
we need to drop the association in order to create
a connection to another AP, but for most drivers
this is actually desirable and the ability to do
was never used by any applications. If we want to
implement resource reservation with FT-OTA, we'd
probably best do it with explicit R-O-C in wpa_s.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: remove tracing config symbol</title>
<updated>2011-11-28T19:44:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-25T12:31:53+00:00</published>
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There's little point in this config symbol, if
tracing is disabled the overhead is negligible
and if you think it's too bad you can always
turn off tracing completely.

Also remove the part where we don't have sparse
check the tracing code -- it seems that it can
now deal with it (or the code changed).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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There's little point in this config symbol, if
tracing is disabled the overhead is negligible
and if you think it's too bad you can always
turn off tracing completely.

Also remove the part where we don't have sparse
check the tracing code -- it seems that it can
now deal with it (or the code changed).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: add the minstrel_ht rate control algorithm</title>
<updated>2010-06-02T20:12:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Felix Fietkau</name>
<email>nbd@openwrt.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-13T14:48:03+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@openwrt.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@openwrt.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
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