linux-toradex.git/net/wireless, branch v2.6.34

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2010-04-06T15:34:06+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (37 commits)
  smc91c92_cs: fix the problem of "Unable to find hardware address"
  r8169: clean up my printk uglyness
  net: Hook up cxgb4 to Kconfig and Makefile
  cxgb4: Add main driver file and driver Makefile
  cxgb4: Add remaining driver headers and L2T management
  cxgb4: Add packet queues and packet DMA code
  cxgb4: Add HW and FW support code
  cxgb4: Add register, message, and FW definitions
  netlabel: Fix several rcu_dereference() calls used without RCU read locks
  bonding: fix potential deadlock in bond_uninit()
  net: check the length of the socket address passed to connect(2)
  stmmac: add documentation for the driver.
  stmmac: fix kconfig for crc32 build error
  be2net: fix bug in vlan rx path for big endian architecture
  be2net: fix flashing on big endian architectures
  be2net: fix a bug in flashing the redboot section
  bonding: bond_xmit_roundrobin() fix
  drivers/net: Add missing unlock
  net: gianfar - align BD ring size console messages
  net: gianfar - initialize per-queue statistics
  ...

wireless: convert reg_regdb_search_lock to mutex

2010-03-30T19:37:20+00:00

Stanse discovered that kmalloc is being called with GFP_KERNEL while
holding this spinlock.  The spinlock can be a mutex instead, which also
enables the removal of the unlock/lock around the lock/unlock of
cfg80211_mutex and the call to set_regdom.

Reported-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6

2010-02-26T07:26:21+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.c

nl80211: add power save commands

2010-02-19T20:52:40+00:00

The most needed command from nl80211, which Wireless Extensions had,
is support for power save mode. Add a simple command to make it possible
to enable and disable power save via nl80211.

I was also planning about extending the interface, for example adding the
timeout value, but after thinking more about this I decided not to do it.
Basically there were three reasons:

Firstly, the parameters for power save are very much hardware dependent.
Trying to find a unified interface which would work with all hardware, and
still make sense to users, will be very difficult.

Secondly, IEEE 802.11 power save implementation in Linux is still in state
of flux. We have a long way to still to go and there is no way to predict
what kind of implementation we will have after few years. And because we
need to support nl80211 interface a long time, practically forever, adding
now parameters to nl80211 might create maintenance problems later on.

Third issue are the users. Power save parameters are mostly used for
debugging, so debugfs is better, more flexible, interface for this.
For example, wpa_supplicant currently doesn't configure anything related
to power save mode. It's better to strive that kernel can automatically
optimise the power save parameters, like with help of pm qos network
and other traffic parameters.

Later on, when we have better understanding of power save, we can extend
this command with more features, if there's a need for that.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

const: struct nla_policy

2010-02-18T22:30:18+00:00

Make remaining netlink policies as const.
Fixup coding style where needed.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

cfg80211/mac80211: allow registering for and sending action frames

2010-02-15T21:14:15+00:00

This implements a new command to register for action frames
that userspace wants to handle instead of the in-kernel
rejection. It is then responsible for rejecting ones that
it decided not to handle. There is no unregistration, but
the socket can be closed for that.

Frames that are not registered for will not be forwarded
to userspace and will be rejected by the kernel, the
cfg80211 API helps implementing that.

Additionally, this patch adds a new command that allows
doing action frame transmission from userspace. It can be
used either to exchange action frames on the current
operational channel (e.g., with the AP with which we are
currently associated) or to exchange off-channel Public
Action frames with the remain-on-channel command.

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

nl80211: does not allow NEW_STATION and DEL_STATION for mesh

2010-02-15T21:12:52+00:00

As discussed in linux-wireless mailing list, adding and removing
stations for mesh topologies is not necessary. Since doing it triggers
bugs, the sugestion was to simply disable it.

Tested using a custom iw command "station new". Works only after using
hostapd. "station del" command also works.

Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: Simon Raffeiner 
Cc: Andrey Yurovsky 
Cc: Javier Cardona 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

Merge branch 'master' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6

2010-02-15T01:45:59+00:00

wireless: update radiotap parser

2010-02-08T21:50:53+00:00

Upstream radiotap has adopted the namespace
proposal David Young made and I then took care
of, for which I had adapted the radiotap parser
as a library outside the kernel. This brings
the in-kernel parser up to speed.

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