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Johannes Berg
b8dc1a35c8 mac80211: further simplify ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify
The special case in the function isn't really needed,
instead make the suspend code a bit better and also
easier to understand and move the warning into the
driver op wrapper inline.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-03 13:01:36 +01:00
Johannes Berg
8a61af65c6 mac80211: fix channel context iteration
During suspend/resume channel contexts might be
iterated even if they haven't been re-added to
the driver, keep track of this and skip them in
iteration. Also use the new status for sanity
checks.

Also clarify the fact that during HW restart all
contexts are iterated over (thanks Eliad.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-03 13:01:35 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
a2013a13e6 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead
  code elimination."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  HOWTO: fix double words typo
  x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init
  propagate name change to comments in kernel source
  doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs
  treewide: Fix typos in various drivers
  treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig
  wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver
  messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o
  scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value
  Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values
  radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments
  doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
  various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments.
  Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments.
  eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous".
  various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments.
  doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation
  target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers
  treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig
  treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments
  ...
2012-12-13 12:00:02 -08:00
Johannes Berg
42d97a599e cfg80211: remove remain-on-channel channel type
As mwifiex (and mac80211 in the software case) are the
only drivers actually implementing remain-on-channel
with channel type, userspace can't be relying on it.
This is the case, as it's used only for P2P operations
right now.

Rather than adding a flag to tell userspace whether or
not it can actually rely on it, simplify all the code
by removing the ability to use different channel types.
Leave only the validation of the attribute, so that if
we extend it again later (with the needed capability
flag), it can't break userspace sending invalid data.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26 12:42:58 +01:00
Sujith Manoharan
77d2ece6fd mac80211: Add debugfs callbacks for station addition/removal
Provide drivers with hooks to create debugfs files when
a new station is added. This would help drivers to take
advantage of mac80211's station list infrastructure and not maintain
tedious station management code internally.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
[ifdef inline wrapper functions]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-21 11:46:25 +01:00
Eliad Peller
4988456862 mac80211: make remain_on_channel() op pass vif param
Drivers (e.g. wl12xx) might need to know the vif
to roc on (mainly in order to configure the
rx filters correctly).

Add the vif to the op params, and update the current
users (iwlwifi) to use the new api.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
[fix hwsim]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-19 16:20:37 +01:00
Masanari Iida
02582e9bcc treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-11-19 14:16:09 +01:00
Johannes Berg
9214ad7f9a mac80211: call driver method when restart completes
When the driver requests a restart (reconfiguration) it
gets all the normal method calls, but can't really tell
why they're happening. Call a new restart_complete op
in the driver when the restart completes, so it could
keep its own state about the restart and clear it there.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-09 17:34:35 +01:00
Johannes Berg
1041638f2b mac80211: add explicit AP/GO driver operations
Depending on the driver, a lot of setup may be
necessary to start operating as an AP, some of
which may fail. Add an explicit AP start driver
method to make such failures easier to handle,
and add an AP stop driver method for symmetry.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-26 12:57:06 +02:00
Michal Kazior
c3645eac47 mac80211: introduce new ieee80211_ops
Introduce channel context driver methods. The channel
on a context channel is immutable, but the channel type
and other properties can change.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-16 20:22:42 +02:00
Johannes Berg
f142c6b906 mac80211: support P2P Device abstraction
After cfg80211 got a P2P Device abstraction, add
support to mac80211. Whether it really is supported
or not will depend on whether or not the driver has
support for it, but mac80211 needs to change to be
able to support drivers that need a P2P Device.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-08-20 13:58:22 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
e687f61eed mac80211: add supported rates change notification in IBSS
In IBSS it is possible that the supported rates set for a station changes over
time (e.g. it gets first initialised as an empty set because of no available
information about rates and updated later). In this case the driver has to be
notified about the change in order to update its internal table accordingly (if
needed).

This behaviour is needed by all those drivers that handle rc internally but
leave stations management to mac80211

Reported-by: Gui Iribarren <gui@altermundi.net>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
[Johannes - add docs, validate IBSS mode only, fix compilation]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-08-20 13:31:43 +02:00
Thomas Huehn
36323f817a mac80211: move TX station pointer and restructure TX
Remove the control.sta pointer from ieee80211_tx_info to free up
sufficient space in the TX skb control buffer for the upcoming
Transmit Power Control (TPC).
Instead, the pointer is now on the stack in a new control struct
that is passed as a function parameter to the drivers' tx method.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
[reworded commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-31 16:18:39 +02:00
Johannes Berg
a1845fc7c5 mac80211: add TX prepare API
Some drivers require setup before being able to send
management frames in managed mode, in particular in
multi-channel cases.

Introduce API to allow the drivers to do such setup
while being able to sleep waiting for the setup to
finish in the device. This isn't possible inside the
TX call since that can't sleep.

A future patch may also restructure the TX retry to
wait for the driver to report the frame status, as
suggested by Arik in
http://mid.gmane.org/CA+XVXffKSEL6ZQPQ98x-zO-NL2=TNF1uN==mprRyUmAaRn254g@mail.gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-03 13:50:34 +02:00
Johannes Berg
cb831b537d mac80211: remove tx_frags driver callback
The implementation of tx_frags is buggy due to
not handling queue stop, and there's no driver
implementing it so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-02 15:40:18 +02:00
Johannes Berg
011ad0e9f8 mac80211: rename driver-trace file
This file will contain more soon, so
rename it to just trace.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-24 11:32:38 +02:00
Victor Goldenshtein
66572cfc30 mac80211: add command to get current rssi
Get current rssi (in dBm) from the driver/FW.

Instead of reporting the signal received in the last
rx packet, which might be inaccurate if rx traffic is
low and beacon filtering is enabled, get the signal
from the driver/FW.

Signed-off-by: Victor Goldenshtein <victorg@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-21 16:42:17 +02:00
Ben Greear
e352114fd6 mac80211: Framework to get wifi-driver stats via ethtool.
This adds hooks to call into the driver to get additional
stats for the ethtool API.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-05-08 21:53:51 -04:00
Johannes Berg
6d52563f2b cfg80211/mac80211: enable proper device_set_wakeup_enable handling
In WoWLAN, we only get the triggers when we actually get
to suspend. As a consequence, drivers currently don't
know that the device should enable wakeup. However, the
device_set_wakeup_enable() API is intended to be called
when the wakeup is enabled, not later when needed.

Add a new set_wakeup() call to cfg80211 and mac80211 to
allow drivers to properly call device_set_wakeup_enable.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-11 16:23:57 -04:00
Johannes Berg
4b6f1dd6a6 mac80211: add explicit monitor interface if needed
The queue mapping redesign that I'm planning to do
will break pure injection unless we handle monitor
interfaces explicitly. One possible option would
be to have the driver tell mac80211 about monitor
mode queues etc., but that would duplicate the API
since we already need to have queue assignments
handled per virtual interface.

So in order to solve this, have a virtual monitor
interface that is added whenever all active vifs
are monitors. We could also use the state of one
of the monitor interfaces, but managing that would
be complicated, so allocate separate state.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-11 16:23:49 -04:00
Johannes Berg
a3304b0a17 cfg80211/nl80211: clarify TX queue API
With the plan to change mac80211's queue API to
not map ACs to queues 1:1, it seems necessary to
clarify some APIs that act on ACs rather than on
queues to spell that out explicitly. Do this.

Also verify that the AC number given is valid.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-10 14:54:09 -04:00
Johannes Berg
8f727ef3c4 mac80211: notify driver of rate control updates
Devices that have internal rate control need to be
notified when the bandwidth or SMPS state changes
just like external rate control algorithms get a
notification now.

Add this notification and clarify the change bits
while at it, the HT_CHANGED bit really meant only
bandwidth changed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-10 14:54:08 -04:00
Ben Greear
d17087e78d mac80211: Add iface name when calling WARN-ON.
This lets the user know which interface has failed
the check_sdata_in_driver check.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-09 16:05:57 -04:00
Johannes Berg
177958e967 mac80211: remove tx_sync
When the station state callback was added, this
was no longer needed in theory. With the iwlwifi
changes to remove use of it landing, we can kill
the entire tx-sync framework again, RIP.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-12 14:19:38 -04:00
Johannes Berg
a4ec45a421 mac80211: implement sta_add/sta_remove in sta_state
Instead of maintaining separate sta_add/sta_remove
callsites, implement it in sta_state when the driver
has no sta_state implementation.

The only behavioural change this should cause is in
secure mesh mode: with this the station entries will
only be created after the stations are set to AUTH.
Given which drivers support mesh, this seems to not
be a problem.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-06 14:48:25 -05:00
Johannes Berg
f09603a259 mac80211: add sta_state callback
(based on Eliad's patch)

Add a callback to notify the low-level driver whenever
the state of a station changes. The driver is only
notified when the station is actually in the mac80211
hash table, not for pre-insert state transitions.

To allow the driver to replace sta_add/remove calls
with this, call extra transitions with the NOTEXIST
state.

This callback can fail, so we need to be careful in
handling it when a station is inserted, particularly
in the IBSS case where we still keep the station entry
around for mac80211 purposes.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-06 14:48:24 -05:00
Johannes Berg
077f493928 mac80211: simplify AP_VLAN handling
Setting keys and updating TKIP keys must use the
BSS sdata (not AP_VLAN), so we translate. Move
the translation into driver-ops wrappers instead
of having it inline in the code to simplify the
normal code flow.

The same can be done for sta_add/remove which
already does the translation in the wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-06 14:48:24 -05:00
Felix Fietkau
bc192f8918 mac80211: do not pass AP VLAN vif pointers to drivers
This fixes frequent WARN_ONs when using AP VLAN + aggregation, as these vifs
are virtual and not registered with drivers.
Use sta_info_get_bss instead of sta_info_get in aggregation callbacks, so
that these callbacks can find the station entry when called with the AP vif.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-28 14:43:52 -05:00
Johannes Berg
11127e9121 mac80211: transmit fragment list to drivers
Drivers can usually handle fragmented packets
much easier when they get the entire list of
fragments at once. The only thing they need to
do is keep enough space on the queues for up
to ten fragments of a single MSDU.

This allows them to implement this with a new
operation tx_frags.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21 16:20:43 -05:00
Johannes Berg
7b7eab6fc1 mac80211: verify virtual interfaces in driver API
The driver is never informed about monitor or
AP_VLAN interfaces, so whenever we pass those
to it later this is a bug. Verify we don't as
there are some cases where this could happen.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09 16:01:02 -05:00
Eliad Peller
8a3a3c85e4 mac80211: pass vif param to conf_tx() callback
tx params should be configured per interface.
add ieee80211_vif param to the conf_tx callback,
and change all the drivers that use this callback.

The following spatch was used:
@rule1@
struct ieee80211_ops ops;
identifier conf_tx_op;
@@
	ops.conf_tx = conf_tx_op;

@rule2@
identifier rule1.conf_tx_op;
identifier hw, queue, params;
@@
	conf_tx_op (
-		struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
+		struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
		u16 queue,
		const struct ieee80211_tx_queue_params *params) {...}

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-03 15:22:41 -04:00
Johannes Berg
40b9640883 mac80211: explicitly notify drivers of frame release
iwlwifi needs to know the number of frames that are
going to be sent to a station while it is asleep so
it can properly handle the uCode blocking of that
station.

Before uAPSD, we got by by telling the device that
a single frame was going to be released whenever we
encountered IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE. With
uAPSD, however, that is no longer possible since
there could be more than a single frame.

To support this model, add a new callback to notify
drivers when frames are going to be released.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30 15:57:21 -04:00
Johannes Berg
4049e09acd mac80211: allow releasing driver-buffered frames
If there are frames for a station buffered in
the driver, mac80211 announces those in the TIM
IE but there's no way to release them. Add new
API to release such frames and use it when the
station polls for a frame.

Since the API will soon also be used for uAPSD
it is easily extensible.

Note that before this change drivers announcing
driver-buffered frames in the TIM bit actually
will respond to a PS-Poll with a potentially
lower priority frame (if there are any frames
buffered in mac80211), after this patch a driver
that hasn't been changed will no longer respond
at all. This only affects ath9k, which will need
to be fixed to implement the new API.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30 15:57:15 -04:00
Eliad Peller
f6f3def323 mac80211: save tx params per sdata
save and configure tx param per sdata, rather than
per hardware.

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
Eliad Peller
37a41b4aff mac80211: add ieee80211_vif param to tsf functions
TSF can be kept per vif.
Add ieee80211_vif param to set/get/reset_tsf, and move
the debugfs entries to the per-vif directory.

Update all the drivers that implement these callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-27 14:27:48 -04:00
Johannes Berg
b4ca6084a8 mac80211: remove offchannel_tx API
For iwlwifi, I decided not to use this API since
it just increased the complexity for little gain.
Since nobody else intends to use it, let's kill
it again. If anybody later needs to have it, we
can always revive it then.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-08 16:04:05 -04:00
Johannes Berg
b2abb6e2bc mac80211: sync driver before TX
In P2P client mode, the GO (AP) to connect to might
have periods of time where it is not available due
to powersave. To allow the driver to sync with it
and send frames to the GO only when it is available
add a new callback tx_sync (and the corresponding
finish_tx_sync). These callbacks can sleep unlike
the actual TX.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-07-20 15:04:35 -04:00
Meenakshi Venkataraman
615f7b9bb1 mac80211: add driver RSSI threshold events
mac80211 maintains a running average of the RSSI when a STA
is associated to an AP. Report threshold events to any driver
that has registered callbacks for getting RSSI measurements.

Implement callbacks in mac80211 so that driver can set thresholds.
Add callbacks in mac80211 which is invoked when an RSSI threshold
event occurs.

mac80211: add tracing to rssi_reports api and remove extraneous fn argument
mac80211: scale up rssi thresholds from driver by 16 before storing

Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-07-11 15:02:06 -04:00
Johannes Berg
c68f4b892c mac80211: support GTK rekey offload
This adds the necessary mac80211 APIs to support
GTK rekey offload, mirroring the functionality
from cfg80211.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-07-06 15:05:43 -04:00
Eliad Peller
b856439b1b mac80211: add cancel_hw_scan() callback
When suspending, __ieee80211_suspend() calls ieee80211_scan_cancel(),
which will only cancel sw scan. In order to cancel hw scan, the
low-level driver has to cancel it in the suspend() callback. however,
this is too late, as a new scan_work will be enqueued (while the driver
is going into suspend).

Add a new cancel_hw_scan() callback, asking the driver to cancel an
active hw scan, and call it in ieee80211_scan_cancel().

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-06-17 14:22:18 -04:00
Luciano Coelho
79f460ca49 mac80211: add support for HW scheduled scan
Implement support for HW scheduled scan.  The mac80211 code doesn't perform
scheduled scans itself, but calls the driver to start and stop scheduled
scans.

This patch also creates a trace event class to be used by drv_hw_scan
and the new drv_sched_scan_start and drv_sched_stop functions, in
order to avoid duplicate code.

Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-11 15:12:27 -04:00
Johannes Berg
eecc48000a mac80211: add basic support for WoWLAN
This adds basic support for the new WoWLAN
configuration in mac80211. The behaviour is
completely offloaded to the driver though,
with two new callbacks (suspend/resume).

Options for the driver include a complete
reconfiguration after wakeup, and exposing
all the triggers it wants to support.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-05 14:59:20 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan
bdbfd6b582 mac80211: Add new API for rate selection
This patch adds a new API for setting a TX rate mask in
drivers that have rate control in either the firmware or hardware.
This can be used for various purposes, for example, masking out the
11b rates in P2P operation.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-28 14:53:19 -04:00
Vivek Natarajan
e8306f9894 mac80211: Check for queued frames before entering power save.
In a highly noisy environment, the tx rate of the driver drops and
the application slows down since it has not yet received ACKs for
the frames already queued in the hardware. Since this ACK may take
more than 100ms, stopping the dev queues for entering PS at this
stage breaks applications, WMM test cases in my testing.
If there are frames already pending in the tx queue, postponing the
PS logic helps to avoid redundant queue stops. When power save is
enabled by default and in a noisy environment, this API certainly
helps in improving the average throughput.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-12 16:57:34 -04:00
John W. Linville
38c091590f mac80211: implement support for cfg80211_ops->{get,set}_ringparam
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-11 15:34:10 -05:00
Johannes Berg
5f16a43617 mac80211: support direct offchannel TX offload
For devices supported by iwlwifi sometimes
off-channel transmissions need to be handled
by the device completely. To support this
mac80211 needs to pass the frame directly
to the driver and not through the TX path
as the driver needs the frame and channel
information at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-25 15:33:40 -05:00
Johannes Berg
7bb4568372 mac80211: make tx() operation return void
The return value of the tx operation is commonly
misused by drivers, leading to errors. All drivers
will drop frames if they fail to TX the frame, and
they must also properly manage the queues (if they
didn't, mac80211 would already warn).

Removing the ability for drivers to return a BUSY
value also allows significant cleanups of the TX
TX handling code in mac80211.

Note that this also fixes a bug in ath9k_htc, the
old "return -1" there was wrong.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com> [ath5k]
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> [rt2x00]
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> [b43, rtl8187, rtlwifi]
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> [wl12xx]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-25 15:32:34 -05:00
Johannes Berg
0b01f030d3 mac80211: track receiver's aggregation reorder buffer size
The aggregation code currently doesn't implement the
buffer size negotiation. It will always request a max
buffer size (which is fine, if a little pointless, as
the mac80211 code doesn't know and might just use 0
instead), but if the peer requests a smaller size it
isn't possible to honour this request.

In order to fix this, look at the buffer size in the
addBA response frame, keep track of it and pass it to
the driver in the ampdu_action callback when called
with the IEEE80211_AMPDU_TX_OPERATIONAL action. That
way the driver can limit the number of subframes in
aggregates appropriately.

Note that this doesn't fix any drivers apart from the
addition of the new argument -- they all need to be
updated separately to use this variable!

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-19 11:36:11 -05:00
Johannes Berg
21f8358964 mac80211: implement hardware offload for remain-on-channel
This allows drivers to support remain-on-channel
offload if they implement smarter timing or need
to use a device implementation like iwlwifi.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-05 16:07:12 -05:00
Tim Harvey
91f44b0299 mac80211 default tx_last_beacon false (congestion)
The 802.11 spec states that the STA that generated the last Beacon frame shall
be the STA that response to a probe request.  This is important for congestion
reduction when a probe request is received - only 1 node in an adhoc BSS
will transmit a response.  While mac80211 drivers should provide the
tx_last_beacon function to report if they transmitted the last beacon many
do not.  As an attempt to reduce probe response congestion default this
to 0 such that a node not implementing this capability does not contribute
to unnecessary congestion.

In a modern medium sized office environment I see upwards of 100 probe
requests per second received at a given node from various hardware/OS/drivers
doing zeroconf 'active probing' as opposed to passively listening for beacons.
With a modest 10-node adhoc network consisting of drivers that do not implement
this tx_last_beacon feature, I have seen this result in the simultaneous xmit
of probe responses accumulating to 500 probe responses per second because of
collisions which brings the adhoc network to its knees as well as causes
needless congestion.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-13 15:23:29 -05:00