linux-toradex.git/net/wireless/core.h, branch v3.7.3

netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion

2012-09-10T19:30:41+00:00

It is a frequent mistake to confuse the netlink port identifier with a
process identifier.  Try to reduce this confusion by renaming fields
that hold port identifiers portid instead of pid.

I have carefully avoided changing the structures exported to
userspace to avoid changing the userspace API.

I have successfully built an allyesconfig kernel with this change.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

cfg80211: process pending events when unregistering net device

2012-08-06T18:29:58+00:00

libertas currently calls cfg80211_disconnected() when it is being
brought down. This causes an event to be allocated, but since the
wdev is already removed from the rdev by the time that the event
processing work executes, the event is never processed or freed.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/95666

Fix this leak, and other possible situations, by processing the event
queue when a device is being unregistered. Thanks to Johannes Berg for
the suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

cfg80211: reduce monitor interface tracking

2012-07-13T14:16:11+00:00

Revert commit b78e8ceac23655e1e06b30aa95ab11742d1ac7c0
("cfg80211: track monitor channel") and remove the
set_monitor_enabled() callback.

Due to the tracking happening in NETDEV_PRE_UP, it had
introduced bugs because the monitor interface callback
would be called before the device was started. It looks
like there's no way to fix this, and using NETDEV_PRE_UP
is broken anyway (since there's no NETDEV_UP_FAIL), so
remove all that code, track interfaces in NETDEV_UP and
also stop tracking the monitor channel in cfg80211.

This mostly reverts to before the tracking, except that
we keep the interface count tracking so that setting the
monitor channel can be rejected properly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: fix locking and lockdep complaints

2012-07-12T10:10:49+00:00

To call cfg80211_get_chan_state() we need to lock
the wdev, so we need to lock the wdev_iter mutex
in cfg80211_can_use_iftype_chan(). This needs to
use nested locking for lockdep.

Also, cfg80211_get_chan_state() doesn't actually
use the rdev, so remove that completely including
the lock assertion that isn't needed.

Reported-by: Eliad Peller 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: use wdev in mgmt-tx/ROC APIs

2012-07-09T12:51:47+00:00

The management frame and remain-on-channel APIs will be
needed in the P2P device abstraction, so move them over
to the new wdev-based APIs. Userspace can still use both
the interface index and wdev identifier for them so it's
backward compatible, but for the P2P Device wdev it will
be able to use the wdev identifier only.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

nl80211: prepare for non-netdev wireless devs

2012-07-09T12:51:46+00:00

In order to support a P2P device abstraction and
Bluetooth high-speed AMPs, we need to have a way
to identify virtual interfaces that don't have a
netdev associated.

Do this by adding a NL80211_ATTR_WDEV attribute
to identify a wdev which may or may not also be
a netdev.

To simplify things, use a 64-bit value with the
high 32 bits being the wiphy index for this new
wdev identifier in the nl80211 API.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: fix locking regression in monitor channel tracking

2012-07-04T11:30:23+00:00

Michal's monitor channel tracking introduce a locking problem
as it locked the rdev lock inside the netdev notifier which
isn't allowed as we might already hold it if we get there by
removing an interface that is up.

Fix this by relying only on the RTNL to protect the interface
counters, the RTNL is always held in these code paths anyway.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: add channel checking for iface combinations

2012-06-29T11:39:19+00:00

.connect cannot be handled since the driver scans
and connects on its own. It is up to the driver
then to refuse a connection (with -EBUSY for
example).

Non-fixed channel IBSSes always take a single
channel resource. For example two non-fixed
channel IBSSes always take up 2
num_different_channels, even if they operate on
the same channel at a given point of time.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: track monitor channel

2012-06-29T11:39:17+00:00

Make it even more obvious we support single
monitor channel. This will allow us to remove
.get_channel.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: track monitor interfaces count

2012-06-29T11:39:16+00:00

Implements .set_monitor_enabled(wiphy, enabled).

Notifies driver upon change of interface layout.

If only monitor interfaces become present it is
called with 2nd argument being true. If
non-monitor interface appears then 2nd argument
is false. Driver is notified only upon change.

This makes it more obvious about the fact that
cfg80211 supports single monitor channel. Once we
implement multi-channel we don't want to allow
setting monitor channel while other interface
types are running. Otherwise it would be ambiguous
once we start considering num_different_channels.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg