kernel/linux.git/include/net/mac80211.h, branch v3.10.42

mac80211: add a flag to indicate CCK support for HT clients

2013-09-08T05:09:59+00:00

commit 2dfca312a91631311c1cf7c090246cc8103de038 upstream. brcm80211 cannot handle sending frames with CCK rates as part of an A-MPDU session. Other drivers may have issues too. Set the flag in all drivers that have been tested with CCK rates. This fixes a reported brcmsmac regression introduced in commit ef47a5e4f1aaf1d0e2e6875e34b2c9595897bef6 "mac80211/minstrel_ht: fix cck rate sampling" Reported-by: Tom Gundersen Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mac80211: fix spurious RCU warning and update documentation

2013-05-16T20:38:05+00:00

Document rx vs tx status concurrency requirements. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: improve the rate control API

2013-04-22T14:16:41+00:00

Allow rate control modules to pass a rate selection table to mac80211 and the driver. This allows drivers to fetch the most recent rate selection from the sta pointer for already buffered frames. This allows rate control to respond faster to sudden link changes and it is also a step towards adding minstrel_ht support to drivers like iwlwifi. When a driver sets IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_RC_TABLE, mac80211 will not fill info->control.rates with rates from the rate table (to preserve explicit overrides by the rate control module). The driver then explicitly calls ieee80211_get_tx_rates to merge overrides from info->control.rates with defaults from the sta rate table. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: indicate admission control in TX queue parameters

2013-04-22T13:33:06+00:00

Some driver implementations need to know whether mandatory admission control is required by the AP for some ACs. Add a parameter to the TX queue parameters indicating this. As there's currently no support for admission control in mac80211's AP implementation, it's only ever set for the client implementation. Signed-off-by: Alexander Bondar Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: fix CTS protection handling

2013-04-16T21:42:30+00:00

The rates[0] CTS and RTS flags are only set after rate control has been called, so minstrel cannot use them to for setting the number of retries. This patch adds two new flags to explicitly indicate RTS/CTS use. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: fix and optimize MCS mask handling

2013-04-16T21:42:29+00:00

Currently the code always copies the configured MCS mask (even if it is set to default), but only uses it if legacy rates were also masked out. Fix this by adding a flag that tracks whether the configured MCS mask is set to default or not. Optimize the code further by storing a pointer to the configured rate mask in txrc instead of using memcpy. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: VHT off-by-one NSS

2013-04-16T14:02:18+00:00

The number of VHT spatial streams (NSS) is found in: - s8 ieee80211_tx_rate.rate.idx[6:4] (tx - filled by rate control) - u8 ieee80211_rx_status.vht_nss (rx - filled by driver) Tx discriminates valid rates indexes with the sign bit and encodes NSS starting from 0 to 7 (note this matches some hw encodings e.g IWLMVM). Rx does not have the same constraints, and encodes NSS starting from 1 to 8 (note this matches what wireshark expects in the radiotap header). To handle ieee80211_tx_rate.rate.idx[6:4] ieee80211_rate_set_vht() and ieee80211_rate_get_vht_nss() assume their nss parameter and return value respectively runs from 0 to 7. ATM, there are only 2 users of these: cfg.c:sta_set_rate_info_t() and iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c:iwl_mvm_hwrate_to_tx_control(), but both assume nss runs from 1 to 8. This patch fixes this inconsistency by making ieee80211_rate_set_vht() and ieee80211_rate_get_vht_nss() handle an nss running from 1 to 8. Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: support secondary channel offset in CSA

2013-04-16T13:29:44+00:00

Add support for the secondary channel offset IE in channel switch announcements. This is necessary for proper handling of CSA on HT access points. For this to work it is also necessary to convert everything here to use chandef structs instead of just channels. The driver updates aren't really correct though. In particular, the TI wl18xx driver update can't possibly be right since it just ignores the new channel width for lack of firmware API. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: provide SSID in IBSS mode

2013-04-10T18:24:18+00:00

Some drivers need SSID in AP and IBSS mode. AP SSID is provided through BSS_CHANGED_SSID notification. There was no easy way to do the same for IBSS. In IBSS mode SSID is known but was not stored in BSS configuration. Extend the AP-mode functionality to also work in IBSS mode. Signed-off-by: Marek Puzyniak Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: Use a cfg80211_chan_def in ieee80211_hw_conf_chan

2013-03-25T18:19:35+00:00

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