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2013-07-16cfg80211/nl80211: Add packet coalesce supportAmitkumar Karwar
In most cases, host that receives IPv4 and IPv6 multicast/broadcast packets does not do anything with these packets. Therefore the reception of these unwanted packets causes unnecessary processing and power consumption. Packet coalesce feature helps to reduce number of received interrupts to host by buffering these packets in firmware/hardware for some predefined time. Received interrupt will be generated when one of the following events occur. a) Expiration of hardware timer whose expiration time is set to maximum coalescing delay of matching coalesce rule. b) Coalescing buffer in hardware reaches it's limit. c) Packet doesn't match any of the configured coalesce rules. This patch adds set/get configuration support for packet coalesce. User needs to configure following parameters for creating a coalesce rule. a) Maximum coalescing delay b) List of packet patterns which needs to be matched c) Condition for coalescence. pattern 'match' or 'no match' Multiple such rules can be created. This feature needs to be advertised during driver initialization. Drivers are supposed to do required firmware/hardware settings based on user configuration. Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> [fix kernel-doc, change free function, fix copy/paste error] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2013-06-04cfg80211: separate internal SME implementationJohannes Berg
The current internal SME implementation in cfg80211 is very mixed up with the MLME handling, which has been causing issues for a long time. There are three things that the implementation has to provide: * a basic SME implementation for nl80211's connect() call (for drivers implementing auth/assoc, which is really just mac80211) and wireless extensions * MLME events for the userspace SME * SME events (connected, disconnected etc.) for all different SME implementation possibilities (driver, cfg80211 and userspace) To achieve these goals it isn't necessary to track the software SME's connection status outside of it's state (which is the part that caused many issues.) Instead, track it only in the SME data (wdev->conn) and in the general case only track whether the wdev is connected or not (via wdev->current_bss.) Also separate the internal implementation to not have callbacks from the SME events, but rather call it from the API functions that the driver (or rather mac80211) calls. This separates the code better. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-27cfg80211: make WoWLAN configuration available to driversJohannes Berg
Make the current WoWLAN configuration available to drivers at runtime. This isn't really useful for the normal WoWLAN behaviour and accessing it can also be racy, but drivers may use it for testing the WoWLAN device behaviour while the host stays up & running to observe the device. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-25cfg80211: remove some locked wrappers from sme APIJohannes Berg
By making all the API functions require wdev locking we can clean up the API a bit, getting rid of the locking version of each function. This also decreases the size of cfg80211 by a small amount. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-25cfg80211: remove some locked wrappers from mlme APIJohannes Berg
By making all the API functions require wdev locking we can clean up the API a bit, getting rid of the locking version of each function. This also decreases the size of cfg80211 by a small amount. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-25cfg80211: vastly simplify lockingJohannes Berg
Virtually all code paths in cfg80211 already (need to) hold the RTNL. As such, there's little point in having another four mutexes for various parts of the code, they just cause lock ordering issues (and much of the time, the RTNL and a few of the others need thus be held.) Simplify all this by getting rid of the extra four mutexes and just use the RTNL throughout. Only a few code changes were needed to do this and we can get rid of a work struct for bonus points. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-25cfg80211: move cfg80211_get_dev_from_ifindex under wextJohannes Berg
The function is only used and needed by the wext code for scanning, so move it there. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-04-22cfg80211: introduce critical protocol indication from user-spaceArend van Spriel
Some protocols need a more reliable connection to complete successful in reasonable time. This patch adds a user-space API to indicate the wireless driver that a critical protocol is about to commence and when it is done, using nl80211 primitives NL80211_CMD_CRIT_PROTOCOL_START and NL80211_CRIT_PROTOCOL_STOP. There can be only on critical protocol session started per registered cfg80211 device. The driver can support this by implementing the cfg80211 callbacks .crit_proto_start() and .crit_proto_stop(). Examples of protocols that can benefit from this are DHCP, EAPOL, APIPA. Exactly how the link can/should be made more reliable is up to the driver. Things to consider are avoid scanning, no multi-channel operations, and alter coexistence schemes. Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-29Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless Conflicts: net/mac80211/sta_info.c net/wireless/core.h
2013-03-24cfg80211: always check for scan end on P2P deviceJohannes Berg
If a P2P device wdev is removed while it has a scan, then the scan completion might crash later as it is already freed by that time. To avoid the crash always check the scan completion when the P2P device is being removed for some reason. If the driver already canceled it, don't want and free it, otherwise warn and leak it to avoid later crashes. In order to do this, locking needs to be changed away from the rdev mutex (which can't always be guaranteed). For now, use the sched_scan_mtx instead, I'll rename it to just scan_mtx in a later patch. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06cfg80211/mac80211: disconnect on suspendStanislaw Gruszka
If possible that after suspend, cfg80211 will receive request to disconnect what require action on interface that was removed during suspend. Problem can manifest itself by various warnings similar to below one: WARNING: at net/mac80211/driver-ops.h:12 ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify+0x2f9/0x300 [mac80211]() wlan0: Failed check-sdata-in-driver check, flags: 0x4 Call Trace: [<c043e0b3>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x33/0x40 [<f83707c9>] ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify+0x2f9/0x300 [mac80211] [<f83a660a>] ieee80211_recalc_ps_vif+0x2a/0x30 [mac80211] [<f83a6706>] ieee80211_set_disassoc+0xf6/0x500 [mac80211] [<f83a9441>] ieee80211_mgd_deauth+0x1f1/0x280 [mac80211] [<f8381b36>] ieee80211_deauth+0x16/0x20 [mac80211] [<f8261e70>] cfg80211_mlme_down+0x70/0xc0 [cfg80211] [<f8264de1>] __cfg80211_disconnect+0x1b1/0x1d0 [cfg80211] To fix the problem disconnect from any associated network before suspend. User space is responsible to establish connection again after resume. This basically need to be done by user space anyway, because associated stations can go away during suspend (for example NetworkManager disconnects on suspend and connect on resume by default). Patch also handle situation when driver refuse to suspend with wowlan configured and try to suspend again without it. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06cfg80211: refactor association parametersJohannes Berg
cfg80211_mlme_assoc() has grown far too many arguments, make the caller build almost all of the driver struct and pass that to the function instead. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-06cfg80211: add ability to override VHT capabilitiesJohannes Berg
For testing it's sometimes useful to be able to override certain VHT capability advertisement, add the ability to do that in cfg80211. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15nl80211/cfg80211: add radar detection command/eventSimon Wunderlich
Add new NL80211_CMD_RADAR_DETECT, which starts the Channel Availability Check (CAC). This command will also notify the usermode about events (CAC finished, CAC aborted, radar detected, NOP finished). Once radar detection has started it should continuously monitor for radars as long as the channel is active. This patch enables DFS for AP mode in nl80211/cfg80211. Based on original patch by Victor Goldenshtein <victorg@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> [remove WIPHY_FLAG_HAS_RADAR_DETECT again -- my mistake] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-13cfg80211: configuration for WoWLAN over TCPJohannes Berg
Intel Wireless devices are able to make a TCP connection after suspending, sending some data and waking up when the connection receives wakeup data (or breaks). Add the WoWLAN configuration and feature advertising API for it. Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11cfg80211: track hidden SSID networks properlyJohannes Berg
Currently, cfg80211 will copy beacon IEs from a previously received hidden SSID beacon to a probe response entry, if that entry is created after the beacon entry. However, if it is the other way around, or if the beacon is updated, such changes aren't propagated. Fix this by tracking the relation between the probe response and beacon BSS structs in this case. In case drivers have private data stored in a BSS struct and need access to such data from a beacon entry, cfg80211 now provides the hidden_beacon_bss pointer from the probe response entry to the beacon entry. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-16cfg80211: check radar interface combinationsSimon Wunderlich
To ease further DFS development regarding interface combinations, use the interface combinations structure to test for radar capabilities. Drivers can specify which channel widths they support, and in which modes. Right now only a single AP interface is allowed, but as the DFS code evolves other combinations can be enabled. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-03wireless: use __alignedJohannes Berg
Use __aligned(...) instead of __attribute__((aligned(...))) in mac80211 and cfg80211. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-03cfg80211: remove wiphy_idx_validJohannes Berg
This is pretty much useless since get_wiphy_idx() always returns true since it's always called with a valid wiphy pointer. Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-30cfg80211: fix BSS struct IE access racesJohannes Berg
When a BSS struct is updated, the IEs are currently overwritten or freed. This can lead to races if some other CPU is accessing the BSS struct and using the IEs concurrently. Fix this by always allocating the IEs in a new struct that holds the data and length and protecting access to this new struct with RCU. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-27cfg80211: rework chandef checking and export itJohannes Berg
Some of the chandef checking that we do in cfg80211 to check if a channel is supported or not is also needed in mac80211, so rework that a bit and export the functions that are needed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26nl80211/cfg80211: support VHT channel configurationJohannes Berg
Change nl80211 to support specifying a VHT (or HT) using the control channel frequency (as before) and new attributes for the channel width and first and second center frequency. The old channel type is of course still supported for HT. Also change the cfg80211 channel definition struct to support these by adding the relevant fields to it (and removing the _type field.) This also adds new helper functions: - cfg80211_chandef_create to create a channel def struct given the control channel and channel type, - cfg80211_chandef_identical to check if two channel definitions are identical - cfg80211_chandef_compatible to check if the given channel definitions are compatible, and return the wider of the two This isn't entirely complete, but that doesn't matter until we have a driver using it. In particular, it's missing - regulatory checks on the usable bandwidth (if that even makes sense) - regulatory TX power (database can't deal with it) - a proper channel compatibility calculation for the new channel types Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26cfg80211: pass a channel definition structJohannes Berg
Instead of passing a channel pointer and channel type to all functions and driver methods, pass a new channel definition struct. Right now, this struct contains just the control channel and channel type, but for VHT this will change. Also, add a small inline cfg80211_get_chandef_type() so that drivers don't need to use the _type field of the new structure all the time, which will change. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-26cfg80211: remove remain-on-channel channel typeJohannes Berg
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>
2012-11-05cfg80211: allow registering more than one beacon listenerBen Greear
The commit: commit 5e760230e42cf759bd923457ca2753aacf2e656e Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Date: Fri Nov 4 11:18:17 2011 +0100 cfg80211: allow registering to beacons allowed only a single process to register for beacon events per wiphy. This breaks cases where a user may want two or more VIFs on a wiphy and run a seperate hostapd process on each vif. This patch allows multiple beacon listeners, fixing the regression. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-17cfg80211: Allow user space to specify non-IEs to SAE AuthenticationJouni Malinen
SAE extends Authentication frames with fields that are not information elements. NL80211_ATTR_IE is not suitable for these, so introduce a new attribute that can be used to specify the fields needed for SAE in station mode. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> [change to verify that SAE is only used with authenticate command] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-09-10netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusionEric W. Biederman
It is a frequent mistake to confuse the netlink port identifier with a process identifier. Try to reduce this confusion by renaming fields that hold port identifiers portid instead of pid. I have carefully avoided changing the structures exported to userspace to avoid changing the userspace API. I have successfully built an allyesconfig kernel with this change. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-06cfg80211: process pending events when unregistering net deviceDaniel Drake
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> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-07-13cfg80211: reduce monitor interface trackingJohannes Berg
Revert commit b78e8ceac23655e1e06b30aa95ab11742d1ac7c0 ("cfg80211: track monitor channel") and remove the set_monitor_enabled() callback. Due to the tracking happening in NETDEV_PRE_UP, it had introduced bugs because the monitor interface callback would be called before the device was started. It looks like there's no way to fix this, and using NETDEV_PRE_UP is broken anyway (since there's no NETDEV_UP_FAIL), so remove all that code, track interfaces in NETDEV_UP and also stop tracking the monitor channel in cfg80211. This mostly reverts to before the tracking, except that we keep the interface count tracking so that setting the monitor channel can be rejected properly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-12cfg80211: fix locking and lockdep complaintsJohannes Berg
To call cfg80211_get_chan_state() we need to lock the wdev, so we need to lock the wdev_iter mutex in cfg80211_can_use_iftype_chan(). This needs to use nested locking for lockdep. Also, cfg80211_get_chan_state() doesn't actually use the rdev, so remove that completely including the lock assertion that isn't needed. Reported-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-09cfg80211: use wdev in mgmt-tx/ROC APIsJohannes Berg
The management frame and remain-on-channel APIs will be needed in the P2P device abstraction, so move them over to the new wdev-based APIs. Userspace can still use both the interface index and wdev identifier for them so it's backward compatible, but for the P2P Device wdev it will be able to use the wdev identifier only. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-09nl80211: prepare for non-netdev wireless devsJohannes Berg
In order to support a P2P device abstraction and Bluetooth high-speed AMPs, we need to have a way to identify virtual interfaces that don't have a netdev associated. Do this by adding a NL80211_ATTR_WDEV attribute to identify a wdev which may or may not also be a netdev. To simplify things, use a 64-bit value with the high 32 bits being the wiphy index for this new wdev identifier in the nl80211 API. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-04cfg80211: fix locking regression in monitor channel trackingJohannes Berg
Michal's monitor channel tracking introduce a locking problem as it locked the rdev lock inside the netdev notifier which isn't allowed as we might already hold it if we get there by removing an interface that is up. Fix this by relying only on the RTNL to protect the interface counters, the RTNL is always held in these code paths anyway. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-29cfg80211: add channel checking for iface combinationsMichal Kazior
.connect cannot be handled since the driver scans and connects on its own. It is up to the driver then to refuse a connection (with -EBUSY for example). Non-fixed channel IBSSes always take a single channel resource. For example two non-fixed channel IBSSes always take up 2 num_different_channels, even if they operate on the same channel at a given point of time. Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-29cfg80211: track monitor channelMichal Kazior
Make it even more obvious we support single monitor channel. This will allow us to remove .get_channel. Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-29cfg80211: track monitor interfaces countMichal Kazior
Implements .set_monitor_enabled(wiphy, enabled). Notifies driver upon change of interface layout. If only monitor interfaces become present it is called with 2nd argument being true. If non-monitor interface appears then 2nd argument is false. Driver is notified only upon change. This makes it more obvious about the fact that cfg80211 supports single monitor channel. Once we implement multi-channel we don't want to allow setting monitor channel while other interface types are running. Otherwise it would be ambiguous once we start considering num_different_channels. Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-29cfg80211: introduce cfg80211_get_chan_stateMichal Kazior
Helper function for finding out which channel is used by a given interface. An exclusive channel can be used only by a single interface. This is mainly for non-fixed channel IBSS handling. Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-29cfg80211: introduce cfg80211_stop_apMichal Kazior
This functionality will be reused when interface is going down. Avoids code duplication. Also adds missing wdev locking. Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-20cfg80211: make some functions staticJohannes Berg
Some of the functions to retrieve a device can be static as they're used only in nl80211. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-06cfg80211: clarify set_channel APIsJohannes Berg
Now that we've removed all uses of the set_channel API except for the monitor channel and in libertas, clarify this. Split the libertas mesh use into a new libertas_set_mesh_channel() operation, just to keep backward compatibility, and rename the normal set_channel() to set_monitor_channel(). Also describe the desired set_monitor_channel() semantics more clearly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-06-05cfg80211: provide channel to join_mesh functionJohannes Berg
Just like the AP mode patch, instead of setting the channel and then joining the mesh network, provide the channel to join the network on to the join_mesh() function. Like in AP mode, you can also give the channel to the join-mesh nl80211 command now. Unlike AP mode, it picks a default channel if none was given. As libertas uses mesh mode interfaces but has no join_mesh callback and we can't simply break it, keep some compatibility code for that case and configure the channel directly for it. In the non-libertas case, where we store the channel until join, allow setting it while the interface is down. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-05-16cfg80211: remove double prototypeJohannes Berg
cfg80211_calculate_bitrate() is defined in the external header file cfg80211.h now, so no need to keep it in the internal one as well. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-06cfg80211: export cfg80211_ref_bssJohannes Berg
This is needed by mac80211 to keep a reference to a BSS alive for the auth process. Remove the old version of cfg80211_ref_bss() since it's not actually used. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-06cfg80211: stop tracking authenticated stateJohannes Berg
To track authenticated state seems to have been a design mistake in cfg80211. It is possible to have out of band authentication (FT), tracking multiple authentications caused more problems than it ever helped, and the implementation in mac80211 is too complex. Remove all this complexity, and let userspace do whatever it wants to, mac80211 can deal with that just fine. Association is still tracked of course, but authentication no longer is. Local auth state changes are thus no longer of value, so ignore them completely. This will also help implement SAE -- asking the driver to do an authentication is now almost equivalent to sending an authentication frame, with the exception of shared key authentication which is still handled completely. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-13cfg80211: Fix race in bss timeoutVasanthakumar Thiagarajan
It is quite possible to run into a race in bss timeout where the drivers see the bss entry just before notifying cfg80211 of a roaming event but it got timed out by the time rdev->event_work got scehduled from cfg80211_wq. This would result in the following WARN-ON() along with the failure to notify the user space of the roaming. The other situation which is happening with ath6kl that runs into issue is when the driver reports roam to same AP event where the AP bss entry already got expired. To fix this, move cfg80211_get_bss() from __cfg80211_roamed() to cfg80211_roamed(). [158645.538384] WARNING: at net/wireless/sme.c:586 __cfg80211_roamed+0xc2/0x1b1() [158645.538810] Call Trace: [158645.538838] [<c1033527>] warn_slowpath_common+0x65/0x7a [158645.538917] [<c14cfacf>] ? __cfg80211_roamed+0xc2/0x1b1 [158645.538946] [<c103354b>] warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x13 [158645.539055] [<c14cfacf>] __cfg80211_roamed+0xc2/0x1b1 [158645.539086] [<c14beb5b>] cfg80211_process_rdev_events+0x153/0x1cc [158645.539166] [<c14bd57b>] cfg80211_event_work+0x26/0x36 [158645.539195] [<c10482ae>] process_one_work+0x219/0x38b [158645.539273] [<c14bd555>] ? wiphy_new+0x419/0x419 [158645.539301] [<c10486cb>] worker_thread+0xf6/0x1bf [158645.539379] [<c10485d5>] ? rescuer_thread+0x1b5/0x1b5 [158645.539407] [<c104b3e2>] kthread+0x62/0x67 [158645.539484] [<c104b380>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x42/0x42 [158645.539514] [<c151309a>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0xd Reported-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21wireless: Support ht-capabilities over-rides.Ben Greear
This allows users to disable features such as HT, HT40, and to modify the MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU settings for drivers that support it. The MCS, AMPDU, and AMSDU features that may be disabled are are reported in the phy-info netlink message as a mask. Attemping to disable features that are not supported will take no affect, but will not return errors. This is to aid backwards compatibility in user-space apps that may not be clever enough to deal with parsing the the capabilities mask. This patch only enables the infrastructure. An additional patch will enable the feature in mac80211. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09cfg80211/mac80211: allow management TX to not wait for ACKJohannes Berg
For probe responses it can be useful to not wait for ACK to avoid retransmissions if the station that sent the probe is already on the next channel, so allow userspace to request not caring about the ACK with a new nl80211 flag. Since mac80211 needs to be updated for the new function prototype anyway implement it right away -- it's just a few lines of code. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09cfg80211: allow registering to beaconsJohannes Berg
Add the ability to register to received beacon frames to allow implementing OLBC logic in userspace. The registration is per wiphy since there's no point in receiving the same frame multiple times. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-27nl80211/cfg80211: Add support to disable CCK rate for management frameRajkumar Manoharan
Add a new nl80211 attribute to specify whether to send the management frames in CCK rate or not. As of now the wpa_supplicant is disabling CCK rate at P2P init itself. So this patch helps to send P2P probe request/probe response/action frames being sent at non CCK rate in 2GHz without disabling 11b rates. This attribute is used with NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN and NL80211_CMD_FRAME commands to disable CCK rate for management frame transmission. Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-27cfg80211: Validate cipher suite against supported ciphersJouni Malinen
Instead of using a hardcoded list of cipher suites in nl80211.c, use a shared function in util.c to verify that the driver advertises support for the specified cipher. This provides more accurate validation of the values and allows vendor-specific cipher suites to be added in drivers. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>