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 <schuffelen@google.com>
Acked-by: Alistair Strachan <astrachan@google.com>
Acked-by: Greg Hartman <ghartman@google.com>
Acked-by: Tristan Muntsinger <muntsinger@google.com>
[make it a tristate]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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 <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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 <dlebed@quantenna.com>
Signed-off-by: Sergei Maksimenko <smaksimenko@quantenna.com>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Matyukevich <smatyukevich@quantenna.com>
Signed-off-by: Bindu Therthala <btherthala@quantenna.com>
Signed-off-by: Huizhao Wang <hwang@quantenna.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamlesh Rath <krath@quantenna.com>
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <avinashp@quantenna.com>
Signed-off-by: Igor Mitsyanko <igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Change menuconfig to config to keep the Kconfig entries unified. Part of
reorganising wireless drivers directory and Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Rename WL_TI to WLAN_VENDOR_TI to match with other vendor configs and make sure
that it's enabled by default in new configs. Convert menuconfigs to regular
configs to unify the wireless drivers menuconfig. Part of reorganising wireless
drivers directory and Kconfig.
Also remove WLCORE dependency to WL_TI. It should not be needed as WLCORE is
already under if WLAN_VENDOR_TI.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Add new a Kconfig file and a vendor config for realtek. Also update MAINTAINERS
which we missed to do when earlier moving rtlwifi.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Part of reorganising wireless drivers directory and Kconfig. Note that I had to
edit Makefiles from subdirectories to use the new location.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Now that a new mac80211-based driver for Realtek devices has been submitted,
it is time to reorganize the directories. Rather than having directories
rtlwifi and rtl818x be in drivers/net/wireless/, they will now be in
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/. This change simplifies the directory
structure, but does not result in any configuration changes that are
visable to the user.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Add support for the simplest of MediaTek Wi-Fi devices - MT7601U.
It is a single stream bgn chip with no bells or whistles.
This driver is partially based on Felix's mt76 but IMHO it doesn't
make sense to merge the two right now because MT7601U is a design
somewhere between old Ralink devices and new Mediatek chips. There
wouldn't be all that much code sharing with the devices mt76 supports.
Situation may obviously change when someone decides to extend m76 with
support for the more recent USB dongles.
The driver supports only station mode. I'm hoping to add AP support
when time allows.
This driver sat on GitHub for quite a while and got some testing there:
http://github.com/kuba-moo/mt7601u
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
This patch adds the Redpine Signals' 91x wireless driver.
Signed-off-by: Fariya Fatima <fariyaf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Bug introduced in commit:
wireless: allow Atheros card to not depend on ath.ko
Commit in question changed CONFIG_ATH_COMMON to CONFIG_ATH_CARDS as
"Atheros card" indication in drivers/net/wireless/ath/Kconfig but it
is used also by drivers/net/wireless/Makefile
If there are only Atheros cards that do not require ATH_COMMON, whole
Makefile for Atheros cards was not executed; and as result, driver
won't compile in this case.
Change in CONFIG_ option name should be reflected in the
drivers/net/wireless/Makefile
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This hardware never became available to normal humans. Leaving this
driver imposes unwelcome maintenance costs for no clear benefit.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Move wl12xx and wl1251 modules into a new drivers/net/wireless/ti
directory. Add a TI WLAN Kconfig option and Makefile to support this
change.
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add the brcm80211 tree to drivers/net/wireless, and disable the version that's
in drivers/staging. This version includes the sources currently in staging,
plus any changes that have been sent out for review.
Sources in staging will be deleted in a followup patch.
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Rename the iwlagn module as iwlwifi in preparation for future
changes. Add an alias to iwlagn for backward compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Don Fry <donald.h.fry@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This driver adds WiFi support for Marvell 802.11n based chipsets
with SDIO interface. Currently only SD8787 is supported. More
chipsets will be supported later.
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/
Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Yang <yangyang@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramesh Radhakrishnan <rramesh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Huang <frankh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The wireless Makefile does not build rtlwifi for rtl8192cu unless
rtl8192ce is selected.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Intel WiFi devices 3945 and 4965 now have their own driver in the folder
drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy
Add support to build these drivers independently of the driver for
AGN devices. Selecting the 3945 builds iwl3945.ko and iwl_legacy.ko,
and selecting the 4965 builds iwl4965.ko and iwl_legacy.ko. iwl-legacy.ko
contains code shared between both devices.
The 3945 is an ABG/BG device, with no support for 802.11n. The 4965 is a 2x3
ABGN device.
Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Intel WiFi devices 3945 and 4965 now have their own driver in the folder
drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy
Add support to build these drivers independently of the driver for
AGN devices. Selecting the 3945 builds iwl3945.ko and iwl_legacy.ko,
and selecting the 4965 builds iwl4965.ko and iwl_legacy.ko. iwl-legacy.ko
contains code shared between both devices.
The 3945 is an ABG/BG device, with no support for 802.11n. The 4965 is a 2x3
ABGN device.
Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
wl1271 driver is under heavy development but on the other hand the older
wl1251 driver is currently considered more as a legacy driver. To make it
easier to develop wl1271 features move wl1251 to it's own directory,
drivers/net/wireless/wl1251.
There are no functional changes, only moving of files. One regression
is that Kconfig won't be updated automatically and user needs to enable
wl1251 manually with an older config file.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Make this go away (happens when building with a separate object
directory):
Assembler messages:
Fatal error: can't create drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/.tmp_wl12xx_platform_data.o: No such file or directory
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl12xx_platform_data.c: In function 'wl12xx_get_platform_data':
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl12xx_platform_data.c:28: error: cannot open drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/.tmp_wl12xx_platform_data.gcno
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl12xx_platform_data.c:28: confused by earlier errors, bailing out
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Add a simple mechanism to pass platform data to the
SDIO instances of wl12xx.
This way there is no confusion over who owns the 'embedded data',
typechecking is preserved, and no possibility for the wrong driver to
pick up the data.
Originally proposed by Russell King.
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Move the netwave driver to drivers/staging. This is another pre-802.11
driver that has seen virtually no non-API-fixup activity in years, and
for which no active hardware is likely to still exist. This driver
represents unnecessary ongoing maintenance for no clear benefit.
This patch brought to you by the "hacking" session at the 2009 Kernel
Summit in Tokyo, Japan...
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
