20 Dec, 2008
10 commits
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This patch implements dynamic power save for mac80211. Basically it
means enabling power save mode after an idle period. Implementing it
dynamically gives a good compromise of low power consumption and low
latency. Some hardware have support for this in firmware, but some
require the host to do it.The dynamic power save is implemented by adding an timeout to
ieee80211_subif_start_xmit(). The timeout can be enabled from userspace
with Wireless Extensions. For example, the command below enables the
dynamic power save and sets the time timeout to 500 ms:iwconfig wlan0 power timeout 500m
Power save now only works with devices which handle power save in firmware.
It's also disabled by default and the heuristics when and how to enable is
considered as a policy decision and will be left for the userspace to handle.
In case the firmware has support for this, drivers can disable this feature
with IEEE80211_HW_NO_STACK_DYNAMIC_PS.Big thanks to Johannes Berg for the help with the design and code.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo
Acked-by: Johannes Berg
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This is a preparation for the dynamic power save support. In future there are
two paths to stop the master queues and we need to track this properly to
avoid starting queues incorrectly. Implement this by adding a status
array for each queue.The original idea and design is from Johannes Berg, I just did
the implementation based on his notes. All the bugs are mine, of course.Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo
Acked-by: Johannes Berg
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Also disable power save when disassociated. It makes no sense to have
power save enabled while disassociated.iwlwifi seems to have this check in the driver, but it's better to do this
in mac80211 instead.Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo
Acked-by: Johannes Berg
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In stress testing p54usb, the WARN_ON() in ieee80211_tasklet_handler() was
triggered; however, there is no logging of the received value for packet
type. Adding that feature will improve the warning.Signed-off-by: Larry Finger
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This patch fixes a typo in ieee80211_send_assoc(), net/mac80211/mlme.c.
The error is usage of a wrong member when building
the ie80211 management frame (it should be assoc_req, and not reassoc_req).Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen
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Since we do not currently report HT rates (MCS index) in radiotap
header for HT rates, we should not claim the rate is present. The rate
octet itself is used as padding in this case, so only the it_present
flag needs to be removed in case of HT rates.Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen
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When a STA roams back to the same AP before the previous STA entry has
expired, a new STA entry is not added in mac80211. However, a Layer 2
Update frame still needs to be transmitted to update layer 2 devices
about the new location for the STA. Without this, switches may
continue to forward frames to the previous (now incorrect) port when
STA roams between APs.Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen
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This patch adds option for HT-enabled drivers to report HT rates
(HT20/HT40, short GI, MCS index) to mac80211. These rates are
currently not in the rate table, so the rate_idx is used to indicate
MCS index.Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville -
HT management is done differently for AP and STA modes, unify
to just the ->config() callback since HT is fundamentally a
PHY property and cannot be per-BSS.Rename enum nl80211_sec_chan_offset as nl80211_channel_type to denote
the channel type ( NO_HT, HT20, HT40+, HT40- ).Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
Signed-off-by: Sujith
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This patch adds signal strength and transmission bitrate
to the station_info of nl80211.Signed-off-by: Henning Rogge
Acked-by: Johannes Berg
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville
13 Dec, 2008
7 commits
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This patch removes unneeded member (skbuff) from
ieee80211_ibss_add_sta() method in its declaration (in ieee80211_i.h)
and its callers (in rx.c and mlme.c)This patch removes unneeded member from struct ieee80211_rx_data
in ieee80211_i.h.(Originally posted as two patches. -- JWL)
Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen
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AP mode operations are seriously affected if mac80211 runs through a
multi-second scan while the AP is trying to send Beacon frames on the
operation channel. While this could be implemented in a way that does
not cause too many problems, it is not very simple and will require
synchronization with Beacon frame scheduling in the drivers (scan one
channel at a time between Beacon frames). Furthermore, such scanning
takes quite a bit longer time and existing userspace applications
would be likely to timeout while waiting for the results.For now, just refuse requests for new scans (SIOCSIWSCAN) when in AP
mode. In practice, this moves the rejection from iwl* drivers into
mac80211 to make it apply to every mac80211-based driver.This issue shows up in associated stations getting disconnected when
something (e.g., Network Manager) requests a scan while the interface
is in AP mode. When doing this continuously (e.g., NM does it every 120
seconds), the network gets close to useless.Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen
Acked-by: Johannes Berg
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This patch replaces the newly introduced sta_notify_ps function,
which can be used to notify the driver about every power state
transition for all associated stations, by integrating its functionality
back into the original sta_notify callback.Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter
Acked-by: Johannes Berg
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville -
Make sure sparse checks endianness when run on mac80211/cfg80211.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville -
There's no driver that actually does fragmentation on the
device, and the callback is buggy (when it returns an error,
mac80211's fragmentation status is changed so reading the
frag threshold from userspace reads the new value despite
the error). Let's just remove it, if we really find some
hardware supporting it we can add it back later.Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville -
Drivers will support this, obviously, but this forces them to
set it up properly.(This includes the fix posted as "mac80211: fix ifmodes check" and
tested in wireless-testing by Hin-Tak and others. -- JWL)Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
Reported-by: Larry Finger
Tested-by: Hin-Tak Leung
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ieee80211_hw_config can return an error when the hardware
has rfkill enabled. A WARN_ON() is too harsh for this
failure as it is a valid scenario. Only comment this warning
as we would like to have it back when rfkill is integrated into
mac80211.Also reintroduce propagation of error if ieee80211_hw_config fails
in ieee80211_config_beacon.This patch partially reverts patch:
5f0387fc3337ca26f0745f945f550f0c3734960f
"mac80211: clean up ieee80211_hw_config errors"Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville
06 Dec, 2008
1 commit
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c
05 Dec, 2008
10 commits
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This patch removes unnecessary parameter in ieee80211_beacon_add_tim() and
removes unneeded definition and assignment for bdev (instance of net_device) in
ieee80211_beacon_get() and in ieee80211_get_buffered_bc()
(all in tx.c).Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen
Acked-by: Johannes Berg
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This patch is necessary in order to provide a proper Access point support for p54.
Unfortunately for us, there is no documented way to disable the interfering
power save buffering mechanism in firmware completely.Therefore we give in and notify the driver through our new sta_notify_ps callback,
so that we can update the filter state.Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter
Acked-by: Johannes Berg
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Some access points (e.g. Sitecom WL-174) use an empty string as hidden SSID.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Rossi
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further reducing wext code in mac80211.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville -
This patch moves the SIOCGIWNAME handling from mac80211 to cfg80211.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
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This patch adds new NL80211_CMD_SET_WIPHY attributes
NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ and NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_SEC_CHAN_OFFSET to allow
userspace to set the operating channel (e.g., hostapd for AP mode).Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen
Acked-by: Johannes Berg
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When a station goes to PS mode to scan, it will then send
probe requests without the PS bit set. mac80211 will take
that as indication that the station woke up, but it didn't.
This patch changes mac80211 to only consider doze->wake
transitions on data frames to to fix that issue.Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
Cc: Jouni Malinen
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This patch reorders calls during disassociation in
ieee80211_set_disassoc function.
Since sta_info_unlink calls sta_notify(REMOVE) it will
remove the station representing AP from the driver before
it has disassociated from it using bss_info_changed callback.Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville -
It seems like proper etiquette to let other stations know when we are
going down in either STA or IBSS mode. This also notifies userland, so
wpa_supplicant doesn't get confused.Signed-off-by: John W. Linville
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After fixing zd1211rw: use unaligned safe memcmp() in-place of
compare_ether_addr(), I started to see kernel log messages detailing
unaligned access:Kernel unaligned access at TPC[100f7f44] sta_info_get+0x24/0x68 [mac80211]
As with the aforementioned patch, the unaligned access was eminating
from a compare_ether_addr() call. Concerned that whilst it was safe to
assume that unalignment was the norm for the zd1211rw, and take
preventative measures, it may not be the case or acceptable to use the
easy fix of changing the call to memcmp().My research however indicated that it was OK to do this, as there are
a few instances where memcmp() is the preferred mechanism for doing
mac address comparisons throughout the module.Signed-off-by: Shaddy Baddah
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville
27 Nov, 2008
1 commit
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/hp-plus.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/recv.c
net/wireless/reg.c
26 Nov, 2008
8 commits
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Signed-off-by: Ivan Kuten
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville -
When a disassoc packet is received from the AP with a reason code of
'leaving the BSS', mac80211 should go into DISABLED state just as it
would do if the AP suddenly went away for some reason, as that is what
will happen shortly after the AP leaves anyway.Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan
Acked-by: Johannes Berg
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville -
In commit 9ea2c74 named "mac80211/drivers: rewrite the rate control API",
the meaning of status.rates[i].count was changed from number of retries
to total number of tries. As a result, the pid rate-setting algorithm fails
because every packet appears to have needed a retransmit.Signed-off-by: Larry Finger
Acked-by: Johannes Berg
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville -
This makes minstrel the default rate control algorithm
for mac80211. For more information see:http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/mac80211/RateControl/minstrel
If someone can come up with a better algorithm they get a prize
(undisclosed).Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez
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mac80211's ieee80211_register_hw() is often called within the
probe path so it cannot assume the device's driver structure
has been attached yet so to create a workqueue instead of
using driver->name use the wiphy's phy%d name. The name doesn't
really matter anyway.This should fix sporadic oopses found when we race to beat the
driver pointer setting. Not even sure how this was working properly.http://www.kerneloops.org/search.php?search=ieee80211_register_hw
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez
Acked-by: Johannes Berg
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Signed-off-by: Sujith
Acked-by: Johannes Berg
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville -
This adds country IE parsing to mac80211 and enables its usage
within the new regulatory infrastructure in cfg80211. We parse
the country IEs only on management beacons for the BSSID you are
associated to and disregard the IEs when the country and environment
(indoor, outdoor, any) matches the already processed country IE.To avoid following misinformed or outdated APs we build and use
a regulatory domain out of the intersection between what the AP
provides us on the country IE and what CRDA is aware is allowed
on the same country.A secondary device is allowed to follow only the same country IE
as it make no sense for two devices on a system to be in two
different countries.In the case the AP is using country IEs for an incorrect country
the user may help compliance further by setting the regulatory
domain before or after the IE is parsed and in that case another
intersection will be performed.CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY is supported but requires CRDA
present.Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez
Acked-by: Johannes Berg
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Patch fixes the kernel trace when user tries to set
ad-hoc mode on non IBSS channel.
e.g iwconfig wlan0 chan 36 mode ad-hocSigned-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville
22 Nov, 2008
3 commits
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Remove redundant argument comments in files of net/*
Signed-off-by: Qinghuang Feng
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This patch removes unnecessary #include from
/net/mac80211/mlme.c.Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville -
This patch eliminates sparse warnings in pid rate scale algorithm
'debugfs: allow access to signed values' patch hit the dead end
year ago w/o much echo so I guess there is no real need to address this
properly.Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler
Acked-by: Johannes Berg
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville
