lwn.git/net/mac80211/he.c, branch docs-mw

wifi: mac80211: support NAN stations

2026-04-07T13:36:03+00:00

Add support for both NMI and NDI stations. The NDI station will be linked to the NMI station of the NAN peer for which the NDI station is added. A peer can choose to reuse its NMI address as the NDI address. Since different keys might be in use for NAN management and for data frames, we will have 2 different stations, even if they'll have the same address. Even though there are no links in NAN, sta->deflink will still be used to store the one set of capabilities and SMPS mode. Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326121156.9fdd37b8e755.I7a7bd6e8e751cab49c329419485839afd209cfc6@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: don't consider the sband when processing capabilities

2026-03-24T15:32:16+00:00

In NAN, we have one set of (HT, VHT, HE) capabilities for all bands, which means that we will need to process those capabilities without a given sband. To prepare for that, remove the sband argument from ieee80211_ht_cap_ie_to_sta_ht_cap and ieee80211_he_cap_ie_to_sta_he_cap and pass our own capabilities instead. For ieee80211_vht_cap_ie_to_sta_vht_cap, make the sband argument optional, since it is also used to check if there is at least one channel that supports 80 MHz. (Note that this check doesn't make much sense, but this can be handled in a different patch.) Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260320141504.e42ef1f0eabb.If994d6346f00219437e22043e7bf2395b827b34a@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: simplify ieee80211_recalc_chanctx_min_def() API

2025-11-10T09:38:50+00:00

ieee80211_recalc_chanctx_min_def() is used outside the chandef code, but then should/is always used with NULL/false for the two last arguments. Remove them, and create another level of indirection for use inside the file. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251105160431.33408844c392.I4f52298861780c17a27cd229609e8a3e29c8d740@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: add some support for RX OMI power saving

2025-01-13T14:26:43+00:00

In order to save power, it can be desirable to change the RX operating mode using OMI to reduce the bandwidth. As the handshake must be done in the HTC+ field, it cannot be done by mac80211 directly, so expose functions to the driver to request and finalize the necessary updates. Note that RX OMI really only changes what the peer (AP) will transmit to us, but in order to use it to actually save some power (by reducing the listen bandwidth) we also update rate scaling and then the channel context's mindef accordingly. The updates are split into two in order to sequence them correctly, when reducing bandwidth first reduce the rate scaling and thus TX, then send OMI, then reduce the listen bandwidth (chandef); when increasing bandwidth this is the other way around. This also requires tracking in different variables which part is applicable already. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250101070249.2c1a1934bd73.I4e90fd503504e37f9eac5bdae62e3f07e7071275@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: correctly parse Spatial Reuse Parameter Set element

2024-05-29T13:35:12+00:00

Currently, the way of parsing Spatial Reuse Parameter Set element is incorrect and some members of struct ieee80211_he_obss_pd are not assigned. To address this issue, it must be parsed in the order of the elements of Spatial Reuse Parameter Set defined in the IEEE Std 802.11ax specification. The diagram of the Spatial Reuse Parameter Set element (IEEE Std 802.11ax -2021-9.4.2.252). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | |Non-SRG| SRG | SRG | SRG | SRG | |Element|Length| Element | SR |OBSS PD|OBSS PD|OBSS PD| BSS |Partial| | ID | | ID |Control| Max | Min | Max |Color | BSSID | | | |Extension| | Offset| Offset|Offset |Bitmap|Bitmap | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fixes: 1ced169cc1c2 ("mac80211: allow setting spatial reuse parameters from bss_conf") Signed-off-by: Lingbo Kong Link: https://msgid.link/20240516021854.5682-3-quic_lingbok@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: add helpers to access sband iftype data

2023-06-14T09:57:29+00:00

There's quite a bit of code accessing sband iftype data (HE, HE 6 GHz, EHT) and we always need to remember to use the ieee80211_vif_type_p2p() helper. Add new helpers to directly get it from the sband/vif rather than having to call ieee80211_vif_type_p2p(). Convert most code with the following spatch: @@ expression vif, sband; @@ -ieee80211_get_he_iftype_cap(sband, ieee80211_vif_type_p2p(vif)) +ieee80211_get_he_iftype_cap_vif(sband, vif) @@ expression vif, sband; @@ -ieee80211_get_eht_iftype_cap(sband, ieee80211_vif_type_p2p(vif)) +ieee80211_get_eht_iftype_cap_vif(sband, vif) @@ expression vif, sband; @@ -ieee80211_get_he_6ghz_capa(sband, ieee80211_vif_type_p2p(vif)) +ieee80211_get_he_6ghz_capa_vif(sband, vif) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230604120651.db099f49e764.Ie892966c49e22c7b7ee1073bc684f142debfdc84@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: use correct iftype HE cap

2023-06-06T08:04:18+00:00

We already check that the right iftype capa exists, but then don't use it. Assign it to a variable so we can actually use it, and then do that. Fixes: bac2fd3d7534 ("mac80211: remove use of ieee80211_get_he_sta_cap()") Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230604120651.0e908e5c5fdd.Iac142549a6144ac949ebd116b921a59ae5282735@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: keep A-MSDU data in sta and per-link

2022-09-06T08:17:08+00:00

The A-MSDU data needs to be stored per-link and aggregated into a single value for the station. Add a new struct ieee_80211_sta_aggregates in order to store this data and a new function ieee80211_sta_recalc_aggregates to update the current data for the STA. Note that in the non MLO case the pointer in ieee80211_sta will directly reference the data in deflink.agg, which means that recalculation may be skipped in that case. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: make smps_mode per-link

2022-09-06T08:11:44+00:00

The SMPS power save mode needs to be per-link rather than being shared for all links. As such, move it into struct ieee80211_link_sta. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: RCU-ify link STA pointers

2022-06-20T10:57:08+00:00

We need to be able to access these in a race-free way under traffic while adding/removing them, so RCU-ify the pointers. This requires passing a link_sta to a lot of functions so we don't have to do the RCU handling everywhere. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg