22 Apr, 2013
1 commit
11 Apr, 2013
2 commits
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local->hw.conf maybe not be synced when recalcing whether radar is
enabled, sometimes leaving radar enabled even if it's not neccesary
anymore.Fix this by:
* setting radar_enabled when creating the chanctx
* turning radar_enabled off before destroying the last channel contextReported-by: Zefir Kurtisi
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/debug.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
26 Mar, 2013
1 commit
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Drivers that don't use chanctxes cannot perform VHT association because
they still use a "backward compatibility" pair of {ieee80211_channel,
nl80211_channel_type} in ieee80211_conf and ieee80211_local.Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan
[fix kernel-doc]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
25 Mar, 2013
1 commit
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Corey Richardson reported that my idle handling cleanup
(commit fd0f979a1b, "mac80211: simplify idle handling")
broke ath9k_htc. The reason appears to be that it wants
to go out of idle before switching channels. To fix it,
reimplement that sequence.Reported-by: Corey Richardson
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
15 Feb, 2013
4 commits
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For HT and VHT the current bandwidth can change,
add the function ieee80211_vif_change_bandwidth()
to take care of this. It returns a failure if the
new bandwidth isn't compatible with the existing
channel context, the caller has to handle that.
When it happens, also inform the driver that the
bandwidth changed for this virtual interface (no
drivers would actually care today though.)Changing to/from HT/VHT isn't allowed though.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
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This should be called ieee80211_change_chanctx() since
it changes the channel context, not a chandef.Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
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Since the idle decision rework, mac80211 started calling
bss_info_changed() for the driver's monitor interface,
which causes a crash for iwlwifi, but drivers generally
don't expect this to happen. Therefore, avoid it.While at it, also prevent calling it in such cases and
only print a warning. For the P2P Device interface the
idle will no longer be called (no channel context), so
also prevent that and warn on it.Reported-by: Chaitanya
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Add command to trigger radar detection in the driver/FW.
Once radar detection is started it should continuously
monitor for radars as long as the channel active.
If radar is detected usermode notified with 'radar
detected' event.Scanning and remain on channel functionality must be disabled
while doing radar detection/scanning, and vice versa.Based on original patch by Victor Goldenshtein
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
12 Feb, 2013
2 commits
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Now that we have channel contexts, idle is (pretty
much) equivalent to not having a channel context.
Change the code to use this relation so that there
no longer is a need for a lot of idle recalculate
calls everywhere.Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
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Currently the code assigns channel contexts to VLANs
(for use by the TX/RX code) when the AP master gets
its channel context assigned. This works fine, but
in the upcoming radar detection work the VLANs don't
require a channel context (during radar detection)
and assigning one to them anyway causes issues with
locking and also inconsistencies -- a VLAN interface
that is added before radar detection would get the
channel context, while one added during it wouldn't.Fix these issues moving the channel context copying
to a new explicit operation that will not be used
in the radar detection code.Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
03 Jan, 2013
2 commits
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During suspend/resume channel contexts might be
iterated even if they haven't been re-added to
the driver, keep track of this and skip them in
iteration. Also use the new status for sanity
checks.Also clarify the fact that during HW restart all
contexts are iterated over (thanks Eliad.)Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
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Make AP_VLAN type interfaces track the AP master channel
context so they have one assigned for the various lookups.
Don't give them their own refcount etc. since they're just
slaves to the AP master.Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
26 Nov, 2012
1 commit
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Convert mac80211 (and where necessary, some drivers a
little bit) to the new channel definition struct.This will allow extending mac80211 for VHT, which is
currently restricted to channel contexts since there
are no drivers using that which makes it easier. As
I also don't care about VHT for drivers not using the
channel context API, I won't convert the previous API
to VHT support.Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
30 Oct, 2012
1 commit
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Even before channel contexts/multi-channel, having a
single global TX power limit was already problematic,
in particular if two managed interfaces connected to
two APs with different power constraints. The channel
context introduction completely broke this though and
in fact I had disabled TX power configuration there
for drivers using channel contexts.Change everything to track TX power per interface so
that different user settings and different channel
maxima are treated correctly. Also continue tracking
the global TX power though for compatibility with
applications that attempt to configure the wiphy's
TX power globally.Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
17 Oct, 2012
6 commits
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Drivers may need to iterate the active channel
contexts, export an iterator function to allow
that. To make it possible, use RCU-safe list
functions.Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
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On each channel that the device is operating on, it
may need to listen using one or more chains depending
on the SMPS settings of the interfaces using it. The
previous channel context changes completely removed
this ability (before, it was available as the SMPS
mode).Add per-context tracking of the required static and
dynamic RX chains and notify the driver on changes.
To achieve this, track the chains and SMPS mode used
on each virtual interface and update the channel
context whenever this changes.Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
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Instead of operating on a single channel only,
use the new channel context infrastructure in
all mac80211 code.This enables drivers that want to use the new
channel context infrastructure to use multiple
channels, while nothing should change for all
the other drivers that don't support it.Right now this disables both TX power settings
and spatial multiplexing powersave. Both need
to be re-enabled on a channel context basis.Additionally, when channel contexts are used
drop the connection when channel switch is
received rather than trying to handle it. This
will have to be improved later.[With fixes from Eliad and Emmanuel incorporated]
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach
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Reuse channels with compatible channel types. Some
channel types are compatible and can be used
concurrently.Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior
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Channel context pointer will be accessible on
both assign and unassign events.Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior
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Channel context are the foundation for multi-channel
operation. They are are immutable and are re-created
(or re-used if other interfaces are bound to a certain
channel and a compatible channel type) on channel
switching.This is an initial implementation and more features
will come in separate patches.Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior
[some changes including RCU protection]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
06 Sep, 2012
1 commit
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Split functionality for further reuse.
Will prevent code duplication when channel context
channel_type merging is introduced.Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
06 Jun, 2012
1 commit
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Allow channel change on a mesh interface if the interface is up and no
mesh is started.Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville
11 Apr, 2012
1 commit
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The channel type argument to the rate_update()
callback isn't really the correct way to give
the rate control algorithm about the desired
RX bandwidth of the peer.Remove this argument, and instead update the
STA capabilities with 20/40 appropriately. The
SMPS update done by this callback works in the
same way, so this makes the callback cleaner.Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville
14 Mar, 2012
1 commit
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When regulatory information changes our HT behavior (e.g,
when we get a country code from the AP we have just associated
with), we should use this information to change the power with
which we transmit, and what channels we transmit. Sometimes
the channel parameters we derive from regulatory information
contradicts the parameters we used in association. For example,
we could have associated specifying HT40, but the regulatory
rules we apply may forbid HT40 operation.In the situation above, we should reconfigure ourselves to
transmit in HT20 only, however it makes no sense for us to
disable receive in HT40, since if we associated with these
parameters, the AP has every reason to expect we can and
will receive packets this way. The code in mac80211 does
not have the capability of sending the appropriate action
frames to signal a change in HT behaviour so the AP has
no clue we can no longer receive frames encoded this way.
In some broken AP implementations, this can leave us
effectively deaf if the AP never retries in lower HT rates.This change breaks up the channel_type parameter in the
ieee80211_enable_ht function into a separate receive and
transmit part. It honors the channel flags set by regulatory
in order to configure the rate control algorithm, but uses
the capability flags to configure the channel on the radio,
since these were used in association to set the AP's transmit
rate.Signed-off-by: Paul Stewart
Cc: Sam Leffler
Cc: Johannes Berg
Reviewed-by: Luis R Rodriguez
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville
25 Jan, 2012
1 commit
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Use a switch statement instead of a list of if
statements. Also include AP_VLAN in the list
and skip them since the AP interface will also
be looked at.Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville
15 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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When running an AP interface along with the cooked monitor interface created
by hostapd, adding an interface and deleting it again triggers a channel type
recalculation during which the (non-HT) monitor interface takes precedence
over the HT AP interface, thus causing the channel type to be set to non-HT.
Fix this by ensuring that a more wide channel type will not be overwritten
by a less wide channel type.Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville
17 Sep, 2010
1 commit
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Instead of using a WARN_ON(!mutex_is_locked())
use lockdep_assert_held() which compiles away
completely when lockdep isn't enabled, and
also is a more accurate assertion since it
checks that the current thread is holding the
mutex.Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville
29 May, 2010
1 commit
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sparse correctly complains that
__ieee80211_get_channel_mode is not static.Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville
08 May, 2010
2 commits
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Currently, when one interface switches HT mode,
all others will follow along. This is clearly
undesirable, since the new one might switch to
no-HT while another one is operating in HT.Address this issue by keeping track of the HT
mode per interface, and allowing only changes
that are compatible, i.e. switching into HT40+
is not possible when another interface is in
HT40-, in that case the second one needs to
fall back to HT20.Also, to allow drivers to know what's going on,
store the per-interface HT mode (channel type)
in the virtual interface's bss_conf.Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
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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 allSigned-off-by: Johannes Berg
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville