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Author SHA1 Message Date
Kalle Valo
4745fc095d nl80211: add testmode to the list of supported commands
User space might want to test if driver supports testmode. Adding testmode
to the list of supported commands makes this easier.

I omitted testmode_dump() in purpose. I assume all drivers implementing
testmode_dump() will also implement testmode_cmd().

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21 16:20:43 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
b68e6b3b33 cfg80211: pass DFS region to drivers through reg_notifier()
This grants drivers access to the DFS region that a
regulatory domain belongs to.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21 16:20:41 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
8b60b07805 cfg80211: process regulatory DFS region for countries
The wireless-regdb now has support for mapping a country to
one DFS region. CRDA sends this to us now so process it
so we can provide that hint to drivers. This will later be
used by code for processing DFS in a way that meets the
criteria for the DFS region the country belongs to.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21 16:20:41 -05:00
Arik Nemtsov
00f740e1a3 nl80211: Pass probe response data to drivers
Pass probe-response data from usermode via beacon parameters.

Signed-off-by: Guy Eilam <guy@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-11 12:32:51 -05:00
Arik Nemtsov
87bbbe22f8 nl80211: Add probe response offload attribute
Notify user-space about probe-response offloading support in the driver.

A wiphy flag is used to indicate support and a bitmap of protocols
determines which protocols are supported.

Signed-off-by: Guy Eilam <guy@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-11 12:32:51 -05:00
Johannes Berg
d64d373ffe nl80211: fix compiler warning
John reported the following warning:

net/wireless/nl80211.c: In function ‘nl80211_tx_mgmt’:
net/wireless/nl80211.c:5286:8: warning: ‘hdr’ may be used uninitialized in this function

Evidently, his version of gcc isn't able to see that
when "msg" is initialized, "hdr" must also be. My
gcc, 4.6.1, can actually see that and doesn't warn.
Simply initialize the variable to NULL. That means
if the compiler was ever right we'll crash though so
isn't really optimal since it may hide warnings from
the compiler when somebody modifies this code in the
future.

Reported-by: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-11 12:32:51 -05:00
Johannes Berg
e999882a05 mac80211/cfg80211: report monitor channel in wireless extensions
Just add API to get the channel & report it. Trivial really.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-11 12:32:50 -05:00
Dmitry Tarnyagin
dd9dfb9f95 cfg80211: merge in beacon ies of hidden bss.
The problem with PSM when a hidden SSID was used was originally
reported by Juuso Oikarinen.

 - When generally scanning, the AP is getting a bss entry with
   a zero SSID.
 - When associating, a probe-req is sent to the AP with the SSID,
   and as a result a probe-response is received with the hidden
   SSID in place. As a consequence, a second bss entry is created
   for the AP, now with the real SSID.
 - After association, mac80211 executes ieee80211_recalc_ps(),
   but does not switch to powersave because the beacon-ies are missing.

As result, the STA does not ever enter PSM.

The patch merges in beacon ies of hidden bss from beacon to the probe
response, creating a consistent set of ies in place.

Patch is depended on "cfg80211: fix cmp_ies" made by Johannes.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Tarnyagin <dmitry.tarnyagin@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-11 12:32:47 -05:00
Johannes Berg
1f074bd8eb nl80211: advertise socket TX status capability
The new wifi socket TX capability should be
supported by wifi drivers, let them advertise
whether they do or not.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09 16:14:08 -05:00
Johannes Berg
e247bd9068 cfg80211/mac80211: allow management TX to not wait for ACK
For probe responses it can be useful to not wait for ACK to
avoid retransmissions if the station that sent the probe is
already on the next channel, so allow userspace to request
not caring about the ACK with a new nl80211 flag.

Since mac80211 needs to be updated for the new function
prototype anyway implement it right away -- it's just a
few lines of code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09 16:13:54 -05:00
Johannes Berg
b92ab5d86d cfg80211: add event for unexpected 4addr frames
The frames are used by AP/STA WDS mode, and hostapd
needs to know when such a frame was received to set
up the VLAN appropriately to allow using it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09 16:13:52 -05:00
Johannes Berg
5e760230e4 cfg80211: allow registering to beacons
Add the ability to register to received beacon frames
to allow implementing OLBC logic in userspace. The
registration is per wiphy since there's no point in
receiving the same frame multiple times.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09 16:13:51 -05:00
Johannes Berg
7f6cf311a5 nl80211: add API to probe a client
When the AP SME in hostapd is used it wants to
probe the clients when they have been idle for
some time. Add explicit API to support this.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09 16:12:39 -05:00
Johannes Berg
562a74803f nl80211: advertise device AP SME
Add the ability to advertise that the device
contains the AP SME and what features it can
support. There are currently no features in
the bitmap -- probe response offload will be
advertised by a few patches Arik is working
on now (who took over from Guy Eilam) and a
device with AP SME will typically implement
and require response offload.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09 16:12:38 -05:00
Johannes Berg
28946da763 nl80211: allow subscribing to unexpected class3 frames
To implement AP mode without monitor interfaces we
need to be able to send a deauth to stations that
send frames without being associated. Enable this
by adding a new nl80211 event for such frames that
an application can subscribe to.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09 16:05:49 -05:00
Jouni Malinen
819622678e nl80211: Increase maximum NL80211_ATTR_KEY_SEQ length to 16
WPI-SMS4 uses 16-octet PN field, so we need to allow longer key
sequence values to be configured.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09 16:01:01 -05:00
John W. Linville
5e819059a2 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless 2011-11-09 14:49:23 -05:00
Johannes Berg
3b7b72eed1 nl80211: clean up genlmsg_end uses
genlmsg_end() cannot fail, it just returns the length
of the message. Thus, error handling for it is useless.
While removing it, I also noticed a useless variable
and removed this it as well.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-08 15:54:27 -05:00
Johannes Berg
3b6ef6334f cfg80211: fix cmp_ies
When comparing two items by IE, the sort order
wasn't stable, which could lead to issues in the
rbtree. Make it stable by making a missing IE
sort before a present IE.

Also sort by length first if it differs and then
by contents.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-07 13:19:14 -05:00
Johannes Berg
133a3ff2c9 cfg80211: allow setting TXQ parameters only in AP mode
In other modes the parameters should not be set.
Right now, mac80211 will set them, even if the
user asked for setting them on VLANs which the
driver doesn't know about, causing all kinds of
trouble.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-07 13:19:14 -05:00
Johannes Berg
6c7394197a nl80211: fix HT capability attribute validation
Since the NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY attribute is
used as a struct, it needs a minimum, not maximum
length. Enforce that properly. Not doing so could
potentially lead to reading after the buffer.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-07 13:19:13 -05:00
Helmut Schaa
bb6e753e95 nl80211: Add sta_flags to the station info
Reuse the already existing struct nl80211_sta_flag_update to specify
both, a flag mask and the flag set itself. This means
nl80211_sta_flag_update is now used for setting station flags and also
for getting station flags.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-14 14:48:23 -04:00
Arik Nemtsov
941c93cd03 mac80211: data path modification for TDLS peers
Mark the STA entries of enabled TDLS peers with a new "peer authorized"
flag.

During link setup, allow special TDLS setup frames through the AP, but
otherwise drop all packets destined to the peer. This is required by the
TDLS (802.11z) specification in order to prevent reordering of MSDUs
between the AP and direct paths.

When setup completes and the peer is authorized, send data directly,
bypassing the AP.

In the Rx path, allow data to be received directly from TDLS peers.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Cc: Kalyan C Gaddam <chakkal@iit.edu>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30 15:57:09 -04:00
Arik Nemtsov
07ba55d7f1 nl80211/mac80211: allow adding TDLS peers as stations
When adding a TDLS peer STA, mark it with a new flag in both nl80211 and
mac80211. Before adding a peer, make sure the wiphy supports TDLS and
our operating mode is appropriate (managed).

In addition, make sure all peers are removed on disassociation.

A TDLS peer is first added just before link setup is initiated. In later
setup stages we have more info about peer supported rates, capabilities,
etc. This info is reported via nl80211_set_station().

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Cc: Kalyan C Gaddam <chakkal@iit.edu>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30 15:57:08 -04:00
Arik Nemtsov
109086ce0b nl80211: support sending TDLS commands/frames
Add support for sending high-level TDLS commands and TDLS frames via
NL80211_CMD_TDLS_OPER and NL80211_CMD_TDLS_MGMT, respectively. Add
appropriate cfg80211 callbacks for lower level drivers.

Add wiphy capability flags for TDLS support and advertise them via
nl80211.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Cc: Kalyan C Gaddam <chakkal@iit.edu>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30 15:57:05 -04:00
Johannes Berg
3b9ce80ce9 cfg80211/mac80211: apply station uAPSD parameters selectively
Currently, when hostapd sets the station as authorized
we also overwrite its uAPSD parameter. This obviously
leads to buggy behaviour (later, with my patches that
actually add uAPSD support). To fix this, only apply
those parameters if they were actually set in nl80211,
and to achieve that add a bitmap of things to apply.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30 15:57:03 -04:00
John W. Linville
0874073570 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.infradead.org/users/linville/wireless
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c
	net/wireless/nl80211.c
2011-09-28 10:28:09 -04:00
Arik Nemtsov
cd32984f64 mac80211: treat the WME sta flag as a bit
Correct flag usage - use it as a bit index instead of a bit value.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-27 14:36:04 -04:00
Eliad Peller
f70f01c2eb cfg80211/mac80211: add netdev param to set_txq_params()
tx params are currently configured per hw, although they
should be configured per interface.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-27 14:34:11 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan
e9f935e3e8 nl80211/cfg80211: Add support to disable CCK rate for management frame
Add a new nl80211 attribute to specify whether to send the management
frames in CCK rate or not. As of now the wpa_supplicant is disabling
CCK rate at P2P init itself. So this patch helps to send P2P probe
request/probe response/action frames being sent at non CCK rate in 2GHz
without disabling 11b rates.

This attribute is used with NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN and
NL80211_CMD_FRAME commands to disable CCK rate for management frame
transmission.

Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-27 14:34:10 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
38ba3c57af cfg80211: Validate cipher suite against supported ciphers
Instead of using a hardcoded list of cipher suites in nl80211.c, use a
shared function in util.c to verify that the driver advertises support
for the specified cipher. This provides more accurate validation of the
values and allows vendor-specific cipher suites to be added in drivers.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-27 14:29:54 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
6d30240e3d cfg80211: Remove strict validation of AKM suites
NL80211_ATTR_AKM_SUITES can be used to configure new AKMs, like FT or
the SHA-256 -based AKMs or FT from 802.11r/802.11w. In addition, vendor
specific AKMs could be used. The current validation code for the connect
command prevents cfg80211-based drivers from using these mechanisms even
if the driver would not actually use this AKM value (i.e., it uses
WPA/RSN IE from user space). mac80211-based drivers allow any AKM to be
used since this value is not used there.

Remove the unnecessary validation step in cfg80211 to allow drivers to
decide what AKMs are supported. In theory, we could handle this by
advertising supported AKMs, but that would not be very effective unless
we enforce all drivers (including mac80211) to advertise the set of
supported AKMs. This would require additional changes in many places
whenever a new AKM is introduced even though no actually functionality
changes may be required in most drivers.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-27 14:29:54 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
1b9ca0272f cfg80211: Fix validation of AKM suites
Incorrect variable was used in validating the akm_suites array from
NL80211_ATTR_AKM_SUITES. In addition, there was no explicit
validation of the array length (we only have room for
NL80211_MAX_NR_AKM_SUITES).

This can result in a buffer write overflow for stack variables with
arbitrary data from user space. The nl80211 commands using the affected
functionality require GENL_ADMIN_PERM, so this is only exposed to admin
users.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-21 15:58:24 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan
e30815016b wireless: Do not allow disabled channel in scan request
cfg80211_conn_scan allows disabled channels at scan request.
Hence probe request was seen at the disabled one. This patch
ensures that disabled channel never be added into the scan
request's channel list.

Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-20 14:43:48 -04:00
John W. Linville
4d8b61490c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.infradead.org/users/linville/wireless
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-pci.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie-tx.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/main.c
2011-09-20 14:11:55 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
c9df56b48e cfg80211/nl80211: Add PMKSA caching candidate event
When the driver (or most likely firmware) decides which AP to use
for roaming based on internal scan result processing, user space
needs to be notified of PMKSA caching candidates to allow RSN
pre-authentication to be used.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-19 16:10:14 -04:00
Johannes Berg
3919349891 cfg80211: validate IBSS BSSID
The IBSS BSSID is never validated, so an
invalid one might end up being used. Fix
this by rejecting invalid configuration.

Reported-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-19 16:10:13 -04:00
Eliad Peller
0c28ec587a cfg80211: add cfg80211_find_vendor_ie() function
Add function to find vendor-specific ie (along with
vendor-specific ie struct definition and P2P OUI values)

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-19 15:49:11 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan
3965ac0020 wireless: Fix rate mask for scan request
The scan request received from cfg80211_connect do not
have proper rate mast. So the probe request sent on each
channel do not have proper the supported rates ie.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-16 15:32:11 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan
aa3d7eef39 wireless: Reset beacon_found while updating regulatory
During the association, the regulatory is updated by country IE
that reaps the previously found beacons. The impact is that
after a STA disconnects *or* when for any reason a regulatory
domain change happens the beacon hint flag is not cleared
therefore preventing future beacon hints to be learned.
This is important as a regulatory domain change or a restore
of regulatory settings would set back the passive scan and no-ibss
flags on the channel. This is the right place to do this given that
it covers any regulatory domain change.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-16 15:32:08 -04:00
Johannes Berg
4319e19327 cfg80211: verify format of uAPSD information
The format is intended to be like the subfields
in the QoS Info field, verify that is the case.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-14 13:56:43 -04:00
Sven Neumann
d7549cbb9a cfg80211: reorder code to obsolete forward declaration
Reorder functions to remove the need for a forward declaration
introduced by the last commit.

Signed-off-by: Sven Neumann <s.neumann@raumfeld.com>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by:  Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-14 13:26:39 -04:00
Sven Neumann
eac03e3819 cfg80211: hold reg_mutex when updating regulatory
The function wiphy_update_regulatory() uses the static variable
last_request and thus needs to be called with reg_mutex held.
This is the case for all users in reg.c, but the function was
exported for use by wiphy_register(), from where it is called
without the lock being held.

Fix this by making wiphy_update_regulatory() private and introducing
regulatory_update() as a wrapper that acquires and holds the lock.

Signed-off-by: Sven Neumann <s.neumann@raumfeld.com>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by:  Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-14 13:26:39 -04:00
Pavel Roskin
56e6786e59 cfg80211: print bandwidth in chan_reg_rule_print_dbg()
Two spaces and the second "KHz" suggest that the code author meant to
print the bandwidth but forgot it.  The code appears in commit e702d3cf
already with two spaces and "KHz" in place of the bandwidth.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-13 15:53:46 -04:00
Luciano Coelho
a1f1c21c18 nl80211/cfg80211: add match filtering for sched_scan
Introduce filtering for scheduled scans to reduce the number of
unnecessary results (which cause useless wake-ups).

Add a new nested attribute where sets of parameters to be matched can
be passed when starting a scheduled scan.  Only scan results that
match any of the sets will be returned.

At this point, the set consists of a single parameter, an SSID.  This
can be easily extended in the future to support more complex matches.

Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-13 15:53:45 -04:00
Eliad Peller
cedb5412ba nl80211/cfg80211: add WIPHY_FLAG_AP_UAPSD flag
add WIPHY_FLAG_AP_UAPSD flag to indicate uapsd support on
AP mode.

Advertise it to userspace by including a new
NL80211_ATTR_SUPPORT_AP_UAPSD attribute.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-13 15:50:56 -04:00
Joe Perches
24616152b1 wireless: Remove unnecessary OOM logging messages
Removing unnecessary messages saves code and text.

Site specific OOM messages are duplications of a generic MM
out of memory message and aren't really useful, so just
delete them.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-13 15:45:02 -04:00
Vivek Natarajan
f4b34b550a cfg80211/nl80211: Indicate roaming feature capability to userspace.
When the rssi of the current AP drops, both wpa_supplicant and the
firmware may do a background scan to find a better AP and try to
associate. Since firmware based roaming is faster, inform
wpa_supplicant to avoid roaming and let the firmware decide to
roam if necessary.

For fullmac drivers like ath6kl, it is just enough to provide the
ESSID and the firmware will decide on the BSSID. Since it is not
possible to do pre-auth during roaming for fullmac drivers, the
wpa_supplicant needs to completely disconnect with the old AP and
reconnect with the new AP. This consumes lot of time and it is
better to leave the roaming decision to the firmware.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <nataraja@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-13 15:42:31 -04:00
Eliad Peller
c75786c9ef nl80211/cfg80211: add STA WME parameters
Add new NL80211_ATTR_STA_WME nested attribute that contains
wme params needed by the low-level driver (uapsd_queues and
max_sp).

Add these params to the station_parameters struct as well.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-26 10:47:56 -04:00
Javier Cardona
16dd7267f4 {nl,cfg,mac}80211: let userspace make meshif mesh gate
Allow userspace to set NL80211_MESHCONF_GATE_ANNOUNCEMENTS attribute,
which will advertise this mesh node as being a mesh gate.
NL80211_HWMP_ROOTMODE must be set or this will do nothing.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-24 13:59:43 -04:00