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Felix Fietkau
fd8aaaf351 cfg80211: add ap isolation support
This is used to configure APs to not bridge traffic between connected stations.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-27 16:09:21 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
f7917af920 mac80211: fix handling of 4-address-mode in ieee80211_change_iface
A misplaced interface type check bails out too early if the interface
is not in monitor mode. This patch moves it to the right place, so that
it only covers changes to the monitor flags.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-27 16:09:16 -04:00
Juuso Oikarinen
0c86980817 mac80211: Fix sta->last_tx_rate setting with no-op rate control devices
The sta->last_tx_rate is traditionally updated just before transmitting a
frame based on information from the rate control algorithm. However, for
hardware drivers with IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL this is not performed,
as the rate control algorithm is not executed, and because the used rate is
not known before the frame has actually been transmitted.

This causes atleast a fixed 1Mb/s to be reported to user space. A few other
instances of code also rely on this information.

Fix this by setting the sta->last_tx_rate in tx_status handling. There, look
for last rates entry set by the driver, and use that as value for
sta->last_tx_rate.

Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-26 14:11:40 -04:00
Juuso Oikarinen
7bdfcaaff5 mac80211: Fix ieee80211_sta_conn_mon_timer with hw connection monitoring
When IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR is configured by the driver, starting
of ieee80211_sta_conn_mon_timer should be prevented, as it is then not needed.

This is currently partially the case. As it seems, when a probe-response is
received from the AP the timer is still restarted, thus restarting the host
based connection keep-alive mechanism. These probe-responses happen at least
when scanning while associated.

Fix this by preventing starting of the ieee80211_sta_conn_mon_timer in the
ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_resp function.

Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20 11:52:40 -04:00
Holger Schurig
1289723ef2 mac80211: sample survey implementation for mac80211 & hwsim
This adds the survey function to both mac80211 itself and to mac80211_hwsim.
For the latter driver, we simply invent some noise level.A real driver which
cannot determine the real channel noise MUST NOT report any noise, especially
not a magically conjured one :-)

Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20 11:50:52 -04:00
Daniel Yingqiang Ma
03ceedea97 ath9k: Group Key fix for VAPs
When I set up multiple VAPs with ath9k, I encountered an issue that
the traffic may be lost after a while.

The detailed phenomenon is
1. After a while the clients connected to one of these VAPs will get
into a state that no broadcast/multicast packets can be transfered
successfully while the unicast packets can be transfered normally.
2. Minutes latter the unitcast packets transfer will fail as well,
because the ARP entry is expired and it can't be freshed due to the
broadcast trouble.

It's caused by the group key overwritten and someone discussed this
issue in ath9k-devel maillist before, but haven't work out a fix yet.

I referred the method in madwifi, and made a patch for ath9k.
The method is to set the high bit of the sender(AP)'s address, and
associated that mac and the group key. It requires the hardware
supports multicast frame key search. It seems true for AR9160.

Not sure whether it's the correct way to fix this issue. But it seems
to work in my test. The patch is attached, feel free to revise it.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Yingqiang ma <yma.cool@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20 11:50:51 -04:00
Johannes Berg
67e0f39277 mac80211: add missing newline
One HT debugging printk is missing a newline,
add it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-19 16:45:20 -04:00
Juuso Oikarinen
3393a608c4 mac80211: Prevent running sta_cleanup timer unnecessarily
The sta_cleanup timer is used to periodically expire buffered frames from the
tx buf. The timer is executing periodically, regardless of the need for it.
This is wasting resources.

Fix this simply by not restarting the sta_cleanup timer if the tx buffer was
empty. Restart the timer when there is some more tx-traffic.

Cc: Janne Ylälehto <janne.ylalehto@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-19 16:41:42 -04:00
Johannes Berg
2aab4c273a mac80211: fix stopping RX BA session from timer
Kalle reported that his system deadlocks since my
recent work in this area. The reason quickly became
apparent: we try to cancel_timer_sync() a timer
from within itself. Fix that by making the function
aware of the context it is called from.

Reported-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Tested-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-19 16:41:42 -04:00
Nishant Sarmukadam
7834704be4 cfg80211: Avoid sending IWEVASSOCREQIE and IWEVASSOCRESPIE events with NULL event body
In a scenario, where a cfg80211 driver (station mode) does not send assoc request
and assoc response IEs in cfg80211_connect_result after a successful association
to an AP, cfg80211 sends IWEVASSOCREQIE and IWEVASSOCRESPIE to the user space
application with NULL data. This can cause an issue at the event recipient.

An example of this is when cfg80211 sends IWEVASSOCREQIE and IWEVASSOCRESPIE
events with NULL event body to wpa_supplicant. The wpa_supplicant overwrites
the assoc request and assoc response IEs for this station with NULL data.
If the association is WPA/WPA2, the wpa_supplicant is not able to generate
EAPOL handshake messages, since the IEs are NULL.

With the patch, req_ie and resp_ie will be NULL by avoiding the
assignment if the driver has not sent the IEs to cfg80211. The event sending
code sends the events only if resp_ie and req_ie are not NULL. This
will ensure that the events are not sent with NULL event body.

Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-16 15:32:00 -04:00
Teemu Paasikivi
68dd5b7a45 mac80211: check whether scan is in progress before queueing scan_work
As scan_work is queued from work_work it needs to be checked if scan
has been started during execution of work_work. Otherwise, when hw
scan is used, the stack gets error about hw being busy with ongoing
scan. This causes the stack to abort scan without notifying the driver
about it. This leads to a situation where the hw is scanning and the stack
thinks it's not. Then when the scan finishes, the stack will complain by
warnings.

Signed-off-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-09 13:43:11 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
c15cf5fcf9 mac80211: fix typo for LDPC capability
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-09 13:43:09 -04:00
Zhu Yi
39184b151c mac80211: delay skb linearising in rx decryption
We delay the skb linearising in ieee80211_rx_h_decrypt so that
frames do not require software decryption are not linearized. We
are safe to do this because ieee80211_get_mmie_keyidx() only
requires to touch nonlinear data for management frames, which are
already linearized before getting here.

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-09 13:43:09 -04:00
Johannes Berg
b5878a2dc5 mac80211: enhance tracing
Enhance tracing by adding tracing for a variety of
callbacks that the drivers call, and also for
internal calls (currently limited to queue status).
This can aid debugging what is going on in mac80211
in interaction with drivers, since we can now see
what drivers call and not just what mac80211 calls
in the driver.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-08 15:24:13 -04:00
Javier Cardona
97ad9139fd mac80211: Moved mesh action codes to a more visible location
Grouped mesh action codes together with the other action codes in
ieee80211.h.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-08 15:24:07 -04:00
John W. Linville
0f2df9eac7 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into merge
Conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/phy.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
2010-04-08 13:34:54 -04:00
Johannes Berg
8c11e4ab09 mac80211: fix paged RX crypto
WEP crypto was broken, but upon finding the problem
it is evident that other things were broken by the
paged RX patch as well.

To fix it, for now move the linearising in front.
This means that we linearise all frames, which is
not at all what we want, but at least it fixes the
problem for now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07 16:26:25 -04:00
Johannes Berg
54297e4d60 mac80211: fix some RX aggregation locking
A few places in mac80211 do not currently acquire
the sta lock for RX aggregation, but they should.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07 14:38:06 -04:00
Johannes Berg
098a607091 mac80211: clean up/fix aggregation code
The aggregation code has a number of quirks, like
inventing an unneeded WLAN_BACK_TIMER value and
leaking memory under certain circumstances during
station destruction. Fix these issues by using
the regular aggregation session teardown code and
blocking new aggregation sessions, all before the
station is really destructed.

As a side effect, this gets rid of the long code
block to destroy aggregation safely.

Additionally, rename tid_state_rx which can only
have the values IDLE and OPERATIONAL to
tid_active_rx to make it easier to understand
that there is no bitwise stuff going on on the
RX side -- the TX side remains because it needs
to keep track of the driver and peer states.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07 14:38:05 -04:00
Johannes Berg
618f356b95 mac80211: rename WLAN_STA_SUSPEND to WLAN_STA_BLOCK_BA
I want to use it during station destruction as well
so rename it to WLAN_STA_BLOCK_BA which is also the
only use of it now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07 14:38:04 -04:00
Johannes Berg
66b0470aee mac80211: remove ieee80211_sta_stop_rx_ba_session
All callers of ieee80211_sta_stop_rx_ba_session can
just call __ieee80211_stop_rx_ba_session instead
because they already have the station struct, so do
that and remove ieee80211_sta_stop_rx_ba_session.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07 14:38:03 -04:00
Johannes Berg
2b43ae6daf mac80211: remove irq disabling for sta lock
All other places except one in the TX path, which
has BHs disabled, and it also cannot be locked from
interrupts so disabling IRQs is not necessary.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07 14:38:01 -04:00
Johannes Berg
e64b379574 mac80211: fix station destruction problem
When a station w/o a key is destroyed, or when
a driver submits work for a station and thereby
references it again, it seems like potentially
we could reference the station structure while
it is being destroyed.

Wait for an RCU grace period to elapse before
finishing destroying the station after we have
removed the station from the driver and from
the hash table etc., even in the case where no
key is associated with the station.

Also, there's no point in deleting the plink
timer here since it'll be properly deleted just
a bit later.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07 14:38:00 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
d5cdfacb35 cfg80211: Add local-state-change-only auth/deauth/disassoc
cfg80211 is quite strict on allowing authentication and association
commands only in certain states. In order to meet these requirements,
user space applications may need to clear authentication or
association state in some cases. Currently, this can be done with
deauth/disassoc command, but that ends up sending out Deauthentication
or Disassociation frame unnecessarily. Add a new nl80211 attribute to
allow this sending of the frame be skipped, but with all other
deauth/disassoc operations being completed.

Similar state change is also needed for IEEE 802.11r FT protocol in
the FT-over-DS case which does not use Authentication frame exchange
in a transition to another BSS. For this to work with cfg80211, an
authentication entry needs to be created for the target BSS without
sending out an Authentication frame. The nl80211 authentication
command can be used for this purpose, too, with the new attribute to
indicate that the command is only for changing local state. This
enables wpa_supplicant to complete FT-over-DS transition successfully.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07 14:37:56 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
d211e90e28 mac80211: Fix robust management frame handling (MFP)
Commit e34e09401ee9888dd662b2fca5d607794a56daf2 incorrectly removed
use of ieee80211_has_protected() from the management frame case and in
practice, made this validation drop all Action frames when MFP is
enabled. This should have only been done for frames with Protected
field set to zero.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-06 16:49:33 -04:00
Johannes Berg
0379185b6c mac80211: annotate station rcu dereferences
The new RCU lockdep support warns about these
in some contexts -- make it aware of the locks
used to protect all this. Different locks are
used in different contexts which unfortunately
means we can't get perfect checking.

Also remove rcu_dereference() from two places
that don't actually dereference the pointers.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-06 15:53:30 -04:00
Javier Cardona
1cb561f837 mac80211: Handle mesh action frames in ieee80211_rx_h_action
This fixes the problem introduced in commit
8404080568 which broke mesh peer link establishment.

changes:
v2 	Added missing break (Johannes)
v3 	Broke original patch into two (Johannes)

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-06 15:53:28 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
e3efca0a63 mac80211: Fix drop_unencrypted for MFP with hwaccel
Commit bef5d1c70d split
ieee80211_drop_unencrypted() into separate functions that are used for
Data and Management frames. However, it did not handle the
RX_FLAG_DECRYPTED correctly for Management frames:
ieee80211_drop_unencrypted() can only return 0 for Management frames,
so there is no point in calling it here. Instead, just check the
status->flag directly.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-31 14:52:15 -04:00
Marco Porsch
d5d9de024c nl80211: reenable station del for mesh
iw dev <devname> station del <MAC address> is quiet useful in mesh mode and should be possible.

Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-31 14:49:12 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
fa83a21898 mac80211: Fix dropping of unprotected robust multicast frames
When selecting the RX key for group-addressed robust management
frames, we do not actually select any BIP key if the frame is
unprotected (since we cannot find the key index from MMIE). This
results in the drop_unencrypted check in failing to drop the frame. It
is enough to verify that we have a STA entry for the transmitter and
that MFP is enabled for that STA; we do not need to check rx->key
here. This fixes BIP processing for unprotected, group-addressed,
robust management frames.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-31 14:46:42 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
ecbcd32436 mac80211: Fix BIP to be used only with group-addressed frames
BIP (part of IEEE 802.11w) is only supposed to be used with
group-addressed frames. We ended up picking it as a default mechanism
for every management whenever we did not have a STA entry for the
destination (e.g., for Probe Response to a STA that is not
associated). While the extra MMIE in the end of management frames
should not break frames completed in most cases, there is no point in
doing this. Fix key selection to pick the default management key only
if the frame is sent to multicast/broadcast address and the frame is a
robust management frame.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-31 14:46:42 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
e69e95dbec mac80211: Send deauth/disassoc prior to dropping STA entry
When management frame protection (IEEE 802.11w) is used, the
deauthentication and disassociation frames must be protected whenever
the encryption keys are configured. We were removing the STA entry and
with it, the keys, just before actually sending out these frames which
meant that the frames went out unprotected. The AP will drop them in
such a case. Fix this by reordering the operations a bit so that
sta_info_destroy_addr() gets called only after
ieee80211_send_deauth_disassoc().

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-31 14:46:42 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
17e4ec147f mac80211: Track Beacon signal strength and implement cqm events
Calculate a running average of the signal strength reported for Beacon
frames and indicate cqm events if the average value moves below or
above the configured threshold value (and filter out repetitive events
with by using the configured hysteresis).

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-31 14:46:42 -04:00
Stanislaw Gruszka
0af26b278b mac80211: enable QoS explicitly in AP mode
Enable QoS explicitly, when user space AP program will setup a QoS
queues. Currently this is not needed as iwlwifi not work in AP mode
and no other driver implement enable/disable QoS.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-31 14:46:38 -04:00
Stanislaw Gruszka
e1b3ec1a2a mac80211: explicitly disable/enable QoS
Add interface to disable/enable QoS (aka WMM or WME). Currently drivers
enable it explicitly when ->conf_tx method is called, and newer disable.
Disabling is needed for some APs, which do not support QoS, such
we should send QoS frames to them.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-31 14:43:59 -04:00
Zhu Yi
e3cf8b3f7b mac80211: support paged rx SKBs
Mac80211 drivers can now pass paged SKBs to mac80211 via
ieee80211_rx{_irqsafe}. The implementation currently use
skb_linearize() in a few places i.e. management frame
handling, software decryption, defragmentation and A-MSDU
process. We will optimize them one by one later.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-31 14:39:34 -04:00
Frans Pop
55f98938b5 wireless: remove trailing space in messages
Also correct indentation in net/wireless/reg.c.

Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-31 14:38:51 -04:00
Johannes Berg
7236fe29fd mac80211: move netdev queue enabling to correct spot
"mac80211: fix skb buffering issue" still left a race
between enabling the hardware queues and the virtual
interface queues. In hindsight it's totally obvious
that enabling the netdev queues for a hardware queue
when the hardware queue is enabled is wrong, because
it could well possible that we can fill the hw queue
with packets we already have pending. Thus, we must
only enable the netdev queues once all the pending
packets have been processed and sent off to the device.

In testing, I haven't been able to trigger this race
condition, but it's clearly there, possibly only when
aggregation is being enabled.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-30 15:37:28 -04:00
Porsch, Marco
533866b12c mac80211: fix PREQ processing and one small bug
1st) a PREQ should only be processed, if it has the same SN and better
metric (instead of better or equal).
2nd) next_hop[ETH_ALEN] now actually used to buffer
mpath->next_hop->sta.addr for use out of lock.

Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@siemens.com>
Acked-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-30 15:37:23 -04:00
John W. Linville
c7a00dc73b mac80211: correct typos in "unavailable upon resume" warning
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-30 15:37:22 -04:00
John W. Linville
368d06f5b0 wireless: convert reg_regdb_search_lock to mutex
Stanse discovered that kmalloc is being called with GFP_KERNEL while
holding this spinlock.  The spinlock can be a mutex instead, which also
enables the removal of the unlock/lock around the lock/unlock of
cfg80211_mutex and the call to set_regdom.

Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-30 15:37:20 -04:00
Dan Carpenter
14b44974d5 mac80211: remove unneed variable from ieee80211_tx_pending()
We don't need "sdata" any more after:
	d84f323477
	mac80211: remove dev_hold/put calls

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-24 16:04:33 -04:00
Juuso Oikarinen
a97c13c345 mac80211: Add support for connection quality monitoring
Add support for the set_cqm_config op. This op function configures the
requested connection quality monitor rssi threshold and rssi hysteresis
values to the hardware  if the hardware supports
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_CQM.

For unsupported hardware, currently -EOPNOTSUPP is returned, so the mac80211
is currently not doing connection quality monitoring on the host. This could be
added later, if needed.

Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-24 16:04:33 -04:00
Juuso Oikarinen
d6dc1a3863 cfg80211: Add connection quality monitoring support to nl80211
Add support for basic configuration of a connection quality monitoring to the
nl80211 interface, and basic support for notifying about triggered monitoring
events.

Via this interface a user-space connection manager may configure and receive
pre-warning events of deteriorating WLAN connection quality, and start
preparing for roaming in advance, before the connection is already lost.

An example usage of such a trigger is starting scanning for nearby AP's in
an attempt to find one with better connection quality, and associate to it
before the connection characteristics of the existing connection become too bad
or the association is even lost, leading in a prolonged delay in connectivity.

The interface currently supports only RSSI, but it could be later extended
to include other parameters, such as signal-to-noise ratio, if need for that
arises.

Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-24 16:02:37 -04:00
Juuso Oikarinen
1e4dcd0124 mac80211: Add support for connection monitor in hardware
This patch is based on a RFC patch by Kalle Valo.

The wl1271 has a feature which handles the connection monitor logic
in hardware, basically sending periodically nullfunc frames and reporting
to the host if AP is lost, after attempting to recover by sending
probe-requests to the AP.

Add support to mac80211 by adding a new flag IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR
which prevents conn_mon_timer from triggering during idle periods, and
prevents sending probe-requests to the AP if beacon-loss is indicated by the
hardware.

Cc: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-23 16:51:42 -04:00
Joe Perches
76326f1d4c net/wireless/wext-core.c: Use IW_EVENT_IDX macro
There's a wireless.h macro for this, might as well use it.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-23 16:50:27 -04:00
Joe Perches
44608f8012 net/wireless/wext_core.c: Use IW_IOCTL_IDX macro
There's a wireless.h macro for this, might as well use it.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-23 16:50:27 -04:00
florian@mickler.org
819bfecc4f rename new rfkill sysfs knobs
This patch renames the (never officially released) sysfs-knobs
"blocked_hw" and "blocked_sw" to "hard" and "soft", as the hardware vs
software conotation is misleading.

It also gets rid of not needed locks around u32-read-access.

Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-19 15:48:25 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
09a08cff3d mac80211: (really) fix rates setup on IBSS merge
when an IBSS merge happened, the supported rates for the newly added station
were left empty, causing the rate control module to be initialized with only
the basic rates.

the section of the ibss code which deals with updating supported rates for
an already existing station failed to inform the rate control module about the
new rates. as both minstrel and pid don't have an update function i just use
the init function.

also remove unnecessary (unsigned long long) casts and edit debug message.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-16 15:05:47 -04:00
John W. Linville
819386dfc6 Revert "mac80211: fix rates setup on IBSS merge"
I accidentally merged an incomplete version of the patch...

This reverts commit b4d59a9317.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-16 15:05:23 -04:00