kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig, branch v5.10.257

Merge tag 'wireless-drivers-next-2020-07-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/wireless-drivers-next

2020-07-21T00:52:50+00:00

Kalle Valo says: ==================== wireless-drivers-next patches for v5.9 First set of patches for v5.9. This comes later than usual as I was offline for two weeks. The biggest change here is moving Microchip wilc1000 driver from staging. There was an immutable topic branch with one commit moving the whole driver and the topic branch was pulled both to staging-next and wireless-drivers-next. At the moment the only reported conflict is in MAINTAINERS file, so I'm hoping the move should go smoothly. Other notable changes are ath11k getting 6 GHz band support and rtw88 supporting RTL8821CE. And there's also the usual fixes, API changes and cleanups all over. Major changes: wilc1000 * move from drivers/staging to drivers/net/wireless/microchip ath11k * add 6G band support * add spectral scan support iwlwifi * make FW reconfiguration quieter by not using warn level rtw88 * add support for RTL8821CE ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

wireless: fix wiki website url in main Kconfig

2020-07-15T10:18:39+00:00

The wiki url is still the old "wireless.kernel.org" instead of the new "wireless.wiki.kernel.org" Signed-off-by: Flavio Suligoi Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200605154112.16277-3-f.suligoi@asem.it

docs: networking: move ray_cs to the hw driver section

2020-06-26T23:08:44+00:00

Move ray_cs into Wi-Fi driver docs subdirectory. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

wilc1000: move wilc driver out of staging

2020-06-26T05:46:46+00:00

WILC1000 is an IEEE 802.11 b/g/n IoT link controller module. The WILC1000 connects to Microchip AVR/SMART MCUs, SMART MPUs, and other processors with minimal resource requirements with a simple SPI/SDIO-to-Wi-Fi interface. WILC1000 driver has been part of staging for few years. With contributions from the community, it has improved significantly. Full driver review has helped in achieving the current state. The details for those reviews are captured in 1 & 2. [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/1537957525-11467-1-git-send-email-ajay.kathat@microchip.com/ [2]. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/1562896697-8002-1-git-send-email-ajay.kathat@microchip.com/ Signed-off-by: Ajay Singh Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo

treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'

2020-06-13T16:57:21+00:00

Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over '---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances. This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines, I also fixed the indentation. There are a variety of indentation styles found. a) 4 spaces + '---help---' b) 7 spaces + '---help---' c) 8 spaces + '---help---' d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---' e) 1 tab + '---help---' (correct indentation) f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---' g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---' In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the following commend: $ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/' Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

docs: networking: convert ray_cs.txt to ReST

2020-04-30T19:56:37+00:00

- add SPDX header; - use copyright symbol; - add a document title; - mark code blocks and literals as such; - mark tables as such; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines where needed; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig

2019-05-21T08:50:46+00:00

Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which: - Have no license information of any form These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX license identifier is: GPL-2.0-only Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mac80211-next: rtnetlink wifi simulation device

2018-12-05T14:31:31+00:00

This device takes over an existing network device and produces a new one that appears like a wireless connection, returning enough canned responses to nl80211 to satisfy a standard connection manager. If necessary, it can also be set up one step removed from an existing network device, such as through a vlan/80211Q or macvlan connection to not disrupt the existing network interface. To use it to wrap a bare ethernet connection: ip link add link eth0 name wlan0 type virt_wifi You may have to rename or otherwise hide the eth0 from your connection manager, as the original network link will become unusuable and only the wireless wrapper will be functional. This can also be combined with vlan or macvlan links on top of eth0 to share the network between distinct links, but that requires support outside the machine for accepting vlan-tagged packets or packets from multiple MAC addresses. This is being used for Google's Remote Android Virtual Device project, which runs Android devices in virtual machines. The standard network interfaces provided inside the virtual machines are all ethernet. However, Android is not interested in ethernet devices and would rather connect to a wireless interface. This patch allows the virtual machine guest to treat one of its network connections as wireless rather than ethernet, satisfying Android's network connection requirements. We believe this is a generally useful driver for simulating wireless network connections in other environments where a wireless connection is desired by some userspace process but is not available. This is distinct from other testing efforts such as mac80211_hwsim by being a cfg80211 device instead of mac80211 device, allowing straight pass-through on the data plane instead of forcing packaging of ethernet data into mac80211 frames. Signed-off-by: A. Cody Schuffelen Acked-by: Alistair Strachan Acked-by: Greg Hartman Acked-by: Tristan Muntsinger [make it a tristate] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

qtnfmac: introduce new FullMAC driver for Quantenna chipsets

2017-05-24T14:04:13+00:00

This patch adds support for new FullMAC WiFi driver for Quantenna QSR10G chipsets. QSR10G (aka Pearl) is Quantenna's 8x8, 160M, 11ac offering. QSR10G supports 2 simultaneous WMACs - one 5G and one 2G. 5G WMAC supports 160M, 8x8 configuration. FW supports up to 8 concurrent virtual interfaces on each WMAC. Patch introduces 2 new drivers: - qtnfmac.ko for interfacing with kernel wireless core - qtnfmac_pearl_pcie.ko for interfacing with hardware over PCIe interface Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Lebed Signed-off-by: Sergei Maksimenko Signed-off-by: Sergey Matyukevich Signed-off-by: Bindu Therthala Signed-off-by: Huizhao Wang Signed-off-by: Kamlesh Rath Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil Signed-off-by: Igor Mitsyanko Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo

wireless: deprecate WDS and disable by default

2016-10-27T07:08:43+00:00

The old WDS 4-addr frame support is very limited, e.g. * no encryption is possible on such links * it cannot support rate/HT/VHT negotiation * management APIs are very restricted These make the WDS legacy mode useless in practice. All of these are resolved by the 4-addr AP/client support, so there's also no reason to improve WDS in the future. Therefore, add a Kconfig option to disable legacy WDS. This gives people an "emergency valve" while they migrate to the better-supported 4-addr AP/client option; we plan to remove it (and the associated cfg80211/mac80211 code, which is the ultimate goal) in the future. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg