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* cfg80211: fix antenna gain handlingFelix Fietkau2012-11-171-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit c4a9fafc77a5318f5ed26c509bbcddf03e18c201 upstream. No driver initializes chan->max_antenna_gain to something sensible, and the only place where it is being used right now is inside ath9k. This leads to ath9k potentially using less tx power than it can use, which can decrease performance/range in some rare cases. Rather than going through every single driver, this patch initializes chan->orig_mag in wiphy_register(), ignoring whatever value the driver left in there. If a driver for some reason wishes to limit it independent from regulatory rulesets, it can do so internally. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* cfg80211: process pending events when unregistering net deviceDaniel Drake2012-08-151-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit 1f6fc43e621167492ed4b7f3b4269c584c3d6ccc upstream. libertas currently calls cfg80211_disconnected() when it is being brought down. This causes an event to be allocated, but since the wdev is already removed from the rdev by the time that the event processing work executes, the event is never processed or freed. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/95666 Fix this leak, and other possible situations, by processing the event queue when a device is being unregistered. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the suggestion. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* cfg80211: fix deadlock with rfkill/sched_scan by adding new mutexLuciano Coelho2011-07-051-3/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There was a deadlock when rfkill-blocking a wireless interface, because we were locking the rdev mutex on NETDEV_GOING_DOWN to stop sched_scans that were eventually running. The rfkill block code was already holding a mutex under rdev: kernel: ======================================================= kernel: [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] kernel: 3.0.0-rc1-00049-g1fa7b6a #57 kernel: ------------------------------------------------------- kernel: kworker/0:1/4525 is trying to acquire lock: kernel: (&rdev->mtx){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8164c831>] cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call+0x131/0x5b0 kernel: kernel: but task is already holding lock: kernel: (&rdev->devlist_mtx){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8164dcef>] cfg80211_rfkill_set_block+0x4f/0xa0 kernel: kernel: which lock already depends on the new lock. To fix this, add a new mutex specifically for sched_scan, to protect the sched_scan_req element in the rdev struct, instead of using the global rdev mutex. Reported-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211: advertise possible interface combinationsJohannes Berg2011-05-161-0/+69
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the ability to advertise interface combinations in nl80211. This allows the driver to indicate what the combinations are that it supports. "Combinations" of just a single interface are implicit, as previously. Note that cfg80211 will enforce that the restrictions are met, but not for all drivers yet (once all drivers are updated, we can remove the flag and enforce for all). When no combinations are actually supported, an empty list will be exported so that userspace can know if the kernel exported this info or not (although it isn't clear to me what tools using the info should do if the kernel didn't export it). Since some interface types are purely virtual/software and don't fit the restrictions, those are exposed in a new list of pure SW types, not subject to restrictions. This mainly exists to handle AP-VLAN and monitor interfaces in mac80211. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211/mac80211: avoid bounce back mac->cfg->mac on sched_scan_stoppedLuciano Coelho2011-05-121-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When sched_scan_stopped was called by the driver, mac80211 calls cfg80211, which in turn was calling mac80211 back with a flag "driver_initiated". This flag was used so that mac80211 would do the necessary cleanup but would not call the driver. This was enough to prevent the bounce back between the driver and mac80211, but not between mac80211 and cfg80211. To fix this, we now do the cleanup in mac80211 before calling cfg80211. To help with locking issues, the workqueue was moved from cfg80211 to mac80211. Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211: restrict AP beacon intervalsJohannes Berg2011-05-121-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Multiple virtual AP interfaces can currently try to use different beacon intervals, but that just leads to problems since it won't actually be done that way by drivers. Return an error in this case to make sure it won't be done wrong. Also, ignore attempts to change the DTIM period or beacon interval during the lifetime of the BSS. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211/nl80211: add support for scheduled scansLuciano Coelho2011-05-111-1/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement new functionality for scheduled scan offload. With this feature we can scan automatically at certain intervals. The idea is that the hardware can perform scan automatically and filter on desired results without waking up the host unnecessarily. Add NL80211_CMD_START_SCHED_SCAN and NL80211_CMD_STOP_SCHED_SCAN commands to the nl80211 interface. When results are available they are reported by NL80211_CMD_SCHED_SCAN_RESULTS events. The userspace is informed when the scheduled scan has stopped with a NL80211_CMD_SCHED_SCAN_STOPPED event, which can be triggered either by the driver or by a call to NL80211_CMD_STOP_SCHED_SCAN. Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* nl80211/cfg80211: WoWLAN supportJohannes Berg2011-05-051-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is based on (but now quite far from) the original work from Luis and Eliad. Add support for configuring WoWLAN triggers, and getting the configuration out again. Changes from the original patchset are too numerous to list, but one important change needs highlighting: the suspend() callback is passed NULL for the trigger configuration if userspace has not configured WoWLAN at all. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> 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>
* cfg80211: module_param to disable HT40 in 2.4GHz bandAmitkumar Karwar2011-04-251-0/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | Currently mac80211 uses ieee80211_disable_40mhz_24ghz module parameter to allow disabling 40MHz operation in the 2.4GHz band. Move this handling from mac80211 to cfg80211 so that the feature will be more generic. Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211: Fix power save state after interface type changeJuuso Oikarinen2011-02-031-7/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently cfg80211 only configures the PSM state to the driver upon creation of a new virtual interface, but not after interface type change. The mac80211 on the other hand reinitializes its sdata structure every time the interface type is changed, losing the PSM configuration. Hence, if the interface type is changed to, say, ad-hoc and then back to managed, "iw wlan0 get power_save" will claim that PSM is enabled, when in fact on mac80211 level it is not. Fix this in cfg80211 by configuring the PSM state to the driver each time the interface is brought up instead of just when the interface is created. Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Let userspace enable and configure vendor specific path selection.Javier Cardona2010-12-201-6/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | Userspace will now be allowed to toggle between the default path selection algorithm (HWMP, implemented in the kernel), and a vendor specific alternative. Also in the same patch, allow userspace to add information elements to mesh beacons. This is accordance with the Extensible Path Selection Framework specified in version 7.0 of the 802.11s draft. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211/mac80211: add mesh join/leave commandsJohannes Berg2010-12-061-2/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of tying mesh activity to interface up, add join and leave commands for mesh. Since we must be backward compatible, let cfg80211 handle joining a mesh if a mesh ID was pre-configured when the device goes up. Note that this therefore must modify mac80211 as well since mac80211 needs to lose the logic to start the mesh on interface up. We now allow querying mesh parameters before the mesh is connected, which simply returns defaults. Setting them (internally renamed to "update") is only allowed while connected. Specify them with the new mesh join command instead where needed. In mac80211, beaconing must now also follow the mesh enabled/not enabled state, which is done by testing the mesh ID. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* net/wireless: Use pr_<level> and netdev_<level>Joe Perches2010-11-241-4/+4
| | | | | | | | No change in output for pr_<level> prefixes. netdev_<level> output is different, arguably improved. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Revert "wireless: Use first phyX name available when registering phy devices."Johannes Berg2010-10-111-30/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 5a254ffe3ffdfa84fe076009bd8e88da412180d2. The commit failed to take into account that allocated wireless devices (wiphys) are not added into the device list upon allocation, but only when they are registered. Therefore, it opened up a race between allocating and registering a name, so that if two processes allocate and register concurrently ("alloc, alloc, register, register" rather than "alloc, register, alloc, register") the code will attempt to use the same name twice. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
* wireless: Use first phyX name available when registering phy devices.Ben Greear2010-10-051-24/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | | Choose first available phyX name when creating phy devices. This means that reloading a wifi driver will not cause a change in the name of it's phy device. Also, allow users to rename a phy to any un-used name, including phy%d. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville2010-09-241-9/+12
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c net/mac80211/main.c
| * wireless: register wiphy rfkill w/o holding cfg80211_mutexJohn W. Linville2010-08-311-9/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Otherwise lockdep complains... https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17311 [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.36-rc2-git4 #12 ------------------------------------------------------- kworker/0:3/3630 is trying to acquire lock: (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff813396c7>] rtnl_lock+0x12/0x14 but task is already holding lock: (rfkill_global_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa014b129>] rfkill_switch_all+0x24/0x49 [rfkill] which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #2 (rfkill_global_mutex){+.+.+.}: [<ffffffff81079ad7>] lock_acquire+0x120/0x15b [<ffffffff813ae869>] __mutex_lock_common+0x54/0x52e [<ffffffff813aede9>] mutex_lock_nested+0x34/0x39 [<ffffffffa014b4ab>] rfkill_register+0x2b/0x29c [rfkill] [<ffffffffa0185ba0>] wiphy_register+0x1ae/0x270 [cfg80211] [<ffffffffa0206f01>] ieee80211_register_hw+0x1b4/0x3cf [mac80211] [<ffffffffa0292e98>] iwl_ucode_callback+0x9e9/0xae3 [iwlagn] [<ffffffff812d3e9d>] request_firmware_work_func+0x54/0x6f [<ffffffff81065d15>] kthread+0x8c/0x94 [<ffffffff8100ac24>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 -> #1 (cfg80211_mutex){+.+.+.}: [<ffffffff81079ad7>] lock_acquire+0x120/0x15b [<ffffffff813ae869>] __mutex_lock_common+0x54/0x52e [<ffffffff813aede9>] mutex_lock_nested+0x34/0x39 [<ffffffffa018605e>] cfg80211_get_dev_from_ifindex+0x1b/0x7c [cfg80211] [<ffffffffa0189f36>] cfg80211_wext_giwscan+0x58/0x990 [cfg80211] [<ffffffff8139a3ce>] ioctl_standard_iw_point+0x1a8/0x272 [<ffffffff8139a529>] ioctl_standard_call+0x91/0xa7 [<ffffffff8139a687>] T.723+0xbd/0x12c [<ffffffff8139a727>] wext_handle_ioctl+0x31/0x6d [<ffffffff8133014e>] dev_ioctl+0x63d/0x67a [<ffffffff8131afd9>] sock_ioctl+0x48/0x21d [<ffffffff81102abd>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x4ba/0x509 [<ffffffff81102b5d>] sys_ioctl+0x51/0x74 [<ffffffff81009e02>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b -> #0 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}: [<ffffffff810796b0>] __lock_acquire+0xa93/0xd9a [<ffffffff81079ad7>] lock_acquire+0x120/0x15b [<ffffffff813ae869>] __mutex_lock_common+0x54/0x52e [<ffffffff813aede9>] mutex_lock_nested+0x34/0x39 [<ffffffff813396c7>] rtnl_lock+0x12/0x14 [<ffffffffa0185cb5>] cfg80211_rfkill_set_block+0x1a/0x7b [cfg80211] [<ffffffffa014aed0>] rfkill_set_block+0x80/0xd5 [rfkill] [<ffffffffa014b07e>] __rfkill_switch_all+0x3f/0x6f [rfkill] [<ffffffffa014b13d>] rfkill_switch_all+0x38/0x49 [rfkill] [<ffffffffa014b821>] rfkill_op_handler+0x105/0x136 [rfkill] [<ffffffff81060708>] process_one_work+0x248/0x403 [<ffffffff81062620>] worker_thread+0x139/0x214 [<ffffffff81065d15>] kthread+0x8c/0x94 [<ffffffff8100ac24>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
* | cfg80211/nl80211: introduce p2p device typesJohannes Berg2010-09-161-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds P2P-STA and P2P-GO as device types so we can distinguish between those and normal STA or AP (respectively) type interfaces. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | include/net/cfg80211.h: wiphy_<level> messages use dev_printkJoe Perches2010-09-161-49/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The output becomes: [ 41.261941] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht' Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | cfg80211/mac80211: extensible frame processingJohannes Berg2010-08-241-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow userspace to register for more than just action frames by giving the frame subtype, and make it possible to use this in various modes as well. With some tweaks and some added functionality this will, in the future, also be usable in AP mode and be able to replace the cooked monitor interface currently used in that case. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | cfg80211: support sysfs namespacesJohannes Berg2010-08-161-1/+6
|/ | | | | | | | | | | Enable using network namespaces with wireless devices even when sysfs is enabled using the same infrastructure that was built for netdevs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* wireless: Convert wiphy_debug macro to functionJoe Perches2010-07-271-0/+49
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Save a few bytes of text (allyesconfig) $ size drivers/net/wireless/built-in.o* text data bss dec hex filename 3924568 100548 871056 4896172 4ab5ac drivers/net/wireless/built-in.o.new 3926520 100548 871464 4898532 4abee4 drivers/net/wireless/built-in.o.old $ size net/wireless/core.o* text data bss dec hex filename 12843 216 3768 16827 41bb net/wireless/core.o.new 12328 216 3656 16200 3f48 net/wireless/core.o Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211: fix race between sysfs and cfg80211Maxime Bizon2010-07-211-6/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | device_add() is called before adding the phy to the cfg80211 device list. So if a userspace program uses sysfs uevents to detect new phy devices, and queries nl80211 to get phy info, it can get ENODEV even though the phy exists in sysfs. An easy workaround is to hold the cfg80211 mutex until the phy is present in sysfs/cfg80211/debugfs. Signed-off-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211: move cfg80211_exit to .exit.textUwe Kleine-König2010-06-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | cfg80211_exit is only used as module_exit function, so it can go to .exit.text saving a few bytes when CONFIG_CFG80211=y. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville2010-05-051-1/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/cmd.c drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/main.c
| * cfg80211: Remove default dynamic PS timeout valueJuuso Oikarinen2010-04-271-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that the mac80211 is choosing dynamic ps timeouts based on the ps-qos network latency configuration, configure a default value of -1 as the dynamic ps timeout in cfg80211. This value allows the mac80211 to determine the value to be used. Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo2010-03-301-0/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
* nl80211: add power save commandsKalle Valo2010-02-191-7/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The most needed command from nl80211, which Wireless Extensions had, is support for power save mode. Add a simple command to make it possible to enable and disable power save via nl80211. I was also planning about extending the interface, for example adding the timeout value, but after thinking more about this I decided not to do it. Basically there were three reasons: Firstly, the parameters for power save are very much hardware dependent. Trying to find a unified interface which would work with all hardware, and still make sense to users, will be very difficult. Secondly, IEEE 802.11 power save implementation in Linux is still in state of flux. We have a long way to still to go and there is no way to predict what kind of implementation we will have after few years. And because we need to support nl80211 interface a long time, practically forever, adding now parameters to nl80211 might create maintenance problems later on. Third issue are the users. Power save parameters are mostly used for debugging, so debugfs is better, more flexible, interface for this. For example, wpa_supplicant currently doesn't configure anything related to power save mode. It's better to strive that kernel can automatically optimise the power save parameters, like with help of pm qos network and other traffic parameters. Later on, when we have better understanding of power save, we can extend this command with more features, if there's a need for that. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211/mac80211: allow registering for and sending action framesJouni Malinen2010-02-151-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This implements a new command to register for action frames that userspace wants to handle instead of the in-kernel rejection. It is then responsible for rejecting ones that it decided not to handle. There is no unregistration, but the socket can be closed for that. Frames that are not registered for will not be forwarded to userspace and will be rejected by the kernel, the cfg80211 API helps implementing that. Additionally, this patch adds a new command that allows doing action frame transmission from userspace. It can be used either to exchange action frames on the current operational channel (e.g., with the AP with which we are currently associated) or to exchange off-channel Public Action frames with the remain-on-channel command. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211: export multiple MAC addresses in sysfsJohannes Berg2010-01-221-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a device has multiple MAC addresses, userspace will need to know about that. Similarly, if it allows the MAC addresses to vary by a bitmask. If a driver exports multiple addresses, it is assumed that it will be able to deal with that many different addresses, which need not necessarily match the ones programmed into the device; if a mask is set then the device should deal addresses within that mask based on an arbitrary "base address". To test it all and show how it is used, add support to hwsim even though it can't actually deal with addresses different from the default. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211: rcu-ify rdev and wdevJohannes Berg2010-01-191-11/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | Future code will need to look up rdev and wdev within atomic sections, but currently we need to lock a mutex for such lookups. Change the list handling for both to be RCU-safe so that we can look them up in rcu sections instead in the future. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6John W. Linville2010-01-191-2/+2
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| * cfg80211: fix refcount imbalance when wext is disabledJohannes Berg2010-01-111-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT is not set, there is a refcount imbalance with rdev->opencount, fix that by moving it out of the ifdef. Reported-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | nl80211: Add new WIPHY attribute COVERAGE_CLASSLukáš Turek2010-01-121-0/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new attribute NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_COVERAGE_CLASS sets IEEE 802.11 Coverage Class, which depends on maximum distance of nodes in a wireless network. It's required for long distance links (more than a few hundred meters). The attribute is now ignored by two non-mac80211 drivers, rndis and iwmc3200wifi, together with WIPHY_PARAM_RETRY_SHORT and WIPHY_PARAM_RETRY_LONG. If it turns out to be a problem, we could split set_wiphy_params callback or add new capability bits. Signed-off-by: Lukas Turek <8an@praha12.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* wireless : use a dedicated workqueue for cfg80211.Alban Browaeys2009-11-281-1/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch moves the works cleanup, scan and events to a cfg80211 dedicated workqueue. Platform driver like eeepc-laptop ought to use works to rfkill (as new rfkill does lock in rfkill_unregister and the platform driver is called from rfkill_switch_all which also lock the same mutex). This raise a new issue in itself that the work scheduled by the platform driver to the global worqueue calls wiphy_unregister which flush_work scan and event works (which thus flush works on the global workqueue inside a work on the global workqueue) and also put on hold the wdev_cleanup_work (which prevents the dev_put on netdev thus indefinite Usage count error on wifi device). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Alban Browaeys <prahal@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2009-11-241-4/+13
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| * cfg80211: disallow bridging managed/adhoc interfacesJohannes Berg2009-11-191-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A number of people have tried to add a wireless interface (in managed mode) to a bridge and then complained that it doesn't work. It cannot work, however, because in 802.11 networks all packets need to be acknowledged and as such need to be sent to the right address. Promiscuous doesn't help here. The wireless address format used for these links has only space for three addresses, the * transmitter, which must be equal to the sender (origin) * receiver (on the wireless medium), which is the AP in the case of managed mode * the recipient (destination), which is on the APs local network segment In an IBSS, it is similar, but the receiver and recipient must match and the third address is used as the BSSID. To avoid such mistakes in the future, disallow adding a wireless interface to a bridge. Felix has recently added a four-address mode to the AP and client side that can be used (after negotiating that it is possible, which must happen out-of-band by setting up both sides) for bridging, so allow that case. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
| * cfg80211: convert bools into flagsJohannes Berg2009-11-191-4/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We've accumulated a number of options for wiphys which make more sense as flags as we keep adding more. Convert the existing ones. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2009-11-181-0/+1
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/sfc/sfe4001.c drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c drivers/staging/Kconfig drivers/staging/Makefile drivers/staging/rtl8187se/Kconfig drivers/staging/rtl8192e/Kconfig
| * headers: remove sched.h from interrupt.hAlexey Dobriyan2009-10-111-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After m68k's task_thread_info() doesn't refer to current, it's possible to remove sched.h from interrupt.h and not break m68k! Many thanks to Heiko Carstens for allowing this. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
* | cfg80211/mac80211: use debugfs_remove_recursiveJohannes Berg2009-10-301-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We can save a lot of code and pointers in the structs by using debugfs_remove_recursive(). First, change cfg80211 to use debugfs_remove_recursive() so that drivers do not need to clean up any files they added to the per-wiphy debugfs (if and only if they are ok to be accessed until after wiphy_unregister!). Then also make mac80211 use debugfs_remove_recursive() where necessary -- it need not remove per-wiphy files as cfg80211 now removes those, but netdev etc. files still need to be handled but can now be removed without needing struct dentry pointers to all of them. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | wireless: implement basic ethtool support for cfg80211 devicesJohn W. Linville2009-10-071-0/+3
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | wext: refactorJohannes Berg2009-10-071-6/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Refactor wext to * split out iwpriv handling * split out iwspy handling * split out procfs support * allow cfg80211 to have wireless extensions compat code w/o CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT After this, drivers need to - select WIRELESS_EXT - for wext support - select WEXT_PRIV - for iwpriv support - select WEXT_SPY - for iwspy support except cfg80211 -- which gets new hooks in wext-core.c and can then get wext handlers without CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT. Wireless extensions procfs support is auto-selected based on PROC_FS and anything that requires the wext core (i.e. WIRELESS_EXT or CFG80211_WEXT). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | cfg80211: assign device type in netdev notifier callbackMarcel Holtmann2009-10-051-0/+7
|/ | | | | | | | | Instead of having to modify every non-mac80211 for device type assignment, do this inside the netdev notifier callback of cfg80211. So all drivers that integrate with cfg80211 will export a proper device type. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* cfg80211: clean up properly on interface type changeJohannes Berg2009-08-281-53/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When the interface type changes while connected, and the driver does not require the interface to be down for a type change, it is currently possible to get very strange results unless the driver takes special care, which it shouldn't have to. To fix this, take care to disconnect/leave IBSS when changing the interface type -- even if the driver may fail the call. Also process all events that may be pending to avoid running into a situation where an event is reported but only processed after the type has already changed, which would lead to missing events and warnings. A side effect of this is that you will have disconnected or left the IBSS even if the mode change ultimately fails, but since the intention was to change it and thus leave or disconnect, this is not a problem. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211: check lost scans later, fix bugJohannes Berg2009-08-281-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we lose a scan, cfg80211 tries to clean up after the driver. However, it currently does this too early, it does this in GOING_DOWN already instead of DOWN, so it may happen with mac80211. Besides fixing this, also make it more robust by leaking the scan request so if the driver later actually finishes the scan, it won't crash. Also check in ___cfg80211_scan_done whether a scan request is still pending and exit if not. Reported-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Tested-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211: allow cfg80211_connect_result with bssid == NULLZhu Yi2009-08-201-1/+3
| | | | | | | | In case of connection failure, the bssid info is not a must have. Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211: fix dangling scan request checkingJohannes Berg2009-08-201-13/+63
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | My patch "cfg80211: fix deadlock" broke the code it was supposed to fix, the scan request checking. But it's not trivial to put it back the way it was, since the original patch had a deadlock. Now do it in a completely new way: queue the check off to a work struct, where we can freely lock. But that has some more complications, like needing to wait for it to be done before the wiphy/rdev can be destroyed, so some code is required to handle that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211: fix deadlockJohannes Berg2009-08-201-12/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When removing an interface with nl80211, cfg80211 will deadlock in the netdev notifier because we're already holding rdev->mtx and try to acquire it again to verify the scan has been done. This bug was introduced by my patch "cfg80211: check for and abort dangling scan requests". To fix this, move the dangling scan request check into wiphy_unregister(). This will not be able to catch all cases right away, but if the scan problem happens with a manual ifdown or so it will be possible to remedy it by removing the module/device. Additionally, add comments about the deadlock scenario. Reported-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Tested-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de> Tested-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211: allow driver to override PS defaultJohannes Berg2009-08-141-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Sometimes drivers might have a good reason to override the PS default, like iwlwifi right now where it affects RX performance significantly at this point. This will allow them to override the default, if desired, in a way that users can still change it according to their trade-off choices, not the driver's, like would happen if the driver just disabled PS completely then. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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