kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/wireless/Makefile, branch v6.6.132

wifi: move raycs, wl3501 and rndis_wlan to legacy directory

2023-03-13T13:42:14+00:00

To clean up drivers/net/wireless move the old drivers drivers left in the directory to a new "legacy" directory. I did consider adding CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_LEGACY like other vendors have but then dropped the idea as these are really old drivers and hopefully we get to remove them soon. There should be no changes in compilation or in Kconfig options, merely moving files. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230227121732.8967-3-kvalo@kernel.org

wifi: move mac80211_hwsim and virt_wifi to virtual directory

2023-03-13T13:42:14+00:00

To clean up drivers/net/wireless move the virtual drivers to a new virtual directory. I did consider adding CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_VIRTUAL like other vendors have but then dropped the idea as we are not real drivers. There should be no changes in compilation or in Kconfig options, merely moving files. The order in menuconfig is slightly changed, the virtual drivers are now last in the list. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230227121732.8967-2-kvalo@kernel.org

wireless: Fix Makefile to be in alphabetical order

2022-05-17T15:29:49+00:00

Fix quantenna to be in the right order Signed-off-by: Srinivasan R Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/MA1PR01MB26992E104B006B340C3C3A84C1CA9@MA1PR01MB2699.INDPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM

wireless: add plfxlc driver for pureLiFi X, XL, XC devices

2022-04-25T12:30:42+00:00

This is a driver for pureLiFi X, XL, XC devices which use light to transmit data, so they are not compatible with normal Wi-Fi devices. The driver uses separate NL80211_BAND_LC band to distinguish from Wi-Fi. The driver is based on 802.11 softMAC Architecture and uses native 802.11 for configuration and management. Station and Ad-Hoc modes are supported. The driver is compiled and tested in ARM, x86 architectures and compiled in powerpc architecture. This driver implementation has been based on the zd1211rw driver. Signed-off-by: Srinivasan Raju Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220224182042.132466-3-srini.raju@purelifi.com

wfx: get out from the staging area

2022-04-06T06:52:14+00:00

The wfx driver is now mature enough to leave the staging area. Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo

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

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

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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

ath: unify Kconfig with other vendors

2015-11-18T12:28:31+00:00

Change menuconfig to config to keep the Kconfig entries unified. Part of reorganising wireless drivers directory and Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo