kernel/linux.git/include/net/mac80211.h, branch linux-2.6.34.y

mac80211: Fix HT rate control configuration

2010-03-03T20:39:21+00:00

Handling HT configuration changes involved setting the channel with the new HT parameters and then issuing a rate_update() notification to the driver. This behavior changed after the off-channel changes. Now, the channel is not updated with the new HT params in enable_ht() - instead, it is now done when the scan work terminates. This results in the driver depending on stale information, defaulting to non-HT mode always. Fix this by passing the new channel type to the driver. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sujith Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

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

mac80211: Retry null data frame for power save.

2010-02-09T19:10:05+00:00

Even if the null data frame is not acked by the AP, mac80211 goes into power save. This might lead to loss of frames from the AP. Prevent this by restarting dynamic_ps_timer when ack is not received for null data frames. Cc: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: remove get_tx_stats() driver op

2010-02-08T21:51:01+00:00

get_tx_stats() driver operation is not currently used anywhere in mac80211 and there are no plans to use it in the not-so-near future. So it can go without anyone missing it. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Acked-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: allow station add/remove to sleep

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

Many drivers would like to sleep during station addition and removal, and currently have a high complexity there from not being able to. This introduces two new callbacks sta_add() and sta_remove() that drivers can implement instead of using sta_notify() and that can sleep, and the new sta_add() callback is also allowed to fail. The reason we didn't do this previously is that the IBSS code wants to insert stations from the RX path, which is a tasklet, so cannot sleep. This patch will keep the station allocation in that path, but moves adding the station to the driver out of line. Since the addition can now fail, we can have IBSS peer structs the driver rejected -- in that case we still talk to the station but never tell the driver about it in the control.sta pointer. If there will ever be a driver that has a low limit on the number of stations and that cannot talk to any stations that are not known to it, we need to do come up with a new strategy of handling larger IBSSs, maybe quicker expiry or rejecting peers. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: fix monitor mode tx radiotap header handling

2010-02-01T20:40:08+00:00

When an injected frame gets buffered for a powersave STA or filtered and retransmitted, mac80211 attempts to parse the radiotap header again, which doesn't work because it's gone at that point. This patch adds a new flag for checking the availability of a radiotap header, so that it only attempts to parse it once, reusing the tx info on the next call to ieee80211_tx(). This fixes severe issues with rekeying in AP mode. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: wait for beacon before enabling powersave

2010-01-26T16:53:21+00:00

Because DTIM information is required for powersave but is only conveyed in beacons, wait for a beacon before enabling powersave, and change the way the information is conveyed to the driver accordingly. mwl8k doesn't currently seem to implement PS but requires the DTIM period in a different way; after talking to Lennert we agreed to just have mwl8k do the parsing itself in the finalize_join work. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: fix update_tkip_key() documentation about the context

2010-01-25T21:36:28+00:00

Johannes noticed that I had incorrectly documented the context of update_tkip_key() driver operation. It must be atomic because all RX code is run inside rcu critical section. Reported-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: pass vif and station to update_tkip_key

2010-01-22T21:08:55+00:00

When a TKIP key is updated, we should pass the station pointer instead of just the address, since drivers can use that to store their own data. We also need to pass the virtual interface pointer. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: re-enable re-transmission of filtered frames

2010-01-19T21:25:21+00:00

In an earlier commit, mac80211: disable software retry for now Pavel Roskin reported a problem that seems to be due to software retry of already transmitted frames. It turns out that we've never done that correctly, but due to some recent changes it now crashes in the TX code. I've added a comment in the patch that explains the problem better and also points to possible solutions -- which I can't implement right now. I disabled software retry of failed/filtered frames because it was broken. With the work of the previous patches, it now becomes fairly easy to re-enable it by adding a flag indicating that the frame shouldn't be modified, but still running it through the transmit handlers to populate the control information. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville