Jouni Malinen [Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:28:30 +0000 (23:28 -0700)]
mac80211: Track Beacon signal strength and implement cqm events
Calculate a running average of the signal strength reported for Beacon
frames and indicate cqm events if the average value moves below or
above the configured threshold value (and filter out repetitive events
with by using the configured hysteresis).
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sujith [Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:18:27 +0000 (08:48 +0530)]
ath9k_htc: Fix TKIP encryption
Set IEEE80211_HW_RX_INCLUDES_FCS to indicate that
the FCS is present in RX frames. Also, remove a redundant
assignment of skb length and include the FCS_LEN
when checking padding.
Fixing this issue makes TKIP work.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau [Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:14:23 +0000 (20:14 -0700)]
ath9k: allocate tx and rx status information on stack
ath_tx_status and ath_rx_status data are only necessary for a short
time, until they have been processed and converted into mac80211 data
structures.
Because of that, it makes no sense to keep them tied to the DMA
descriptor, that only wastes precious memory.
This patch allocates the data on stack in the functions that call the
conversion functions from ath9k_hw.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau [Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:09:27 +0000 (20:09 -0700)]
ath9k: split out access to rx status information
This patch passes in a pointer to the ath_rx_status data structure for
functions that need it, instead of letting them grab it directly from
the ath_desc struct. This is useful for making it possible to allocate
the intermediate rx status data separately.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau [Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:07:11 +0000 (20:07 -0700)]
ath9k: split out access to tx status information
This patch passes in a pointer to the ath_tx_status data structure for
functions that need it, instead of letting them grab it directly from
the ath_desc struct. This is useful for making it possible to allocate
the intermediate tx status data separately.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Zhu Yi [Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:36:16 +0000 (09:36 +0800)]
ipw2200: restart adapter only when abort_scan doesn't work
When a scan watchdog is fired, try to send abort scan command
first before restarting the adapter. This avoids reconnection for
some users when scan hang is detected.
This fixed bug https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15419
Reported-by: Maurizio Avogadro <mavoga@gmail.com> Tested-by: Maurizio Avogadro <mavoga@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sujith [Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:37:20 +0000 (16:07 +0530)]
ath9k_htc: Initialize HW opmode
Not setting the opmode properly during initialization
results in the firmware sending up a bunch of packets
before add_interface() has been called, for the first
interface.
This patch fixes the issue by setting the initial mode
to 'managed'.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sujith [Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:37:15 +0000 (16:07 +0530)]
ath9k_htc: Simplify RX URB management
This patch introduces the usage of URB anchors,
thus reducing a large amount of code dealing with
URB maintenance within the driver. The RX callback now
takes care of freeing the SKB associated with each URB.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sujith [Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:37:09 +0000 (16:07 +0530)]
ath9k_common: Move RX filter code to ath9k_htc
The calculation of RX filter is fairly different
between ath9k and ath9k_htc, trying to make this
common between the two drivers would result in code churn.
While at it, remove the handling of PSPOLL filter,
it can be added when(if) AP support is added to ath9k_htc.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Enable QoS explicitly, when user space AP program will setup a QoS
queues. Currently this is not needed as iwlwifi not work in AP mode
and no other driver implement enable/disable QoS.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We activate/deactivate QoS and setup default queue parameters in iwlwifi
driver. Mac stack do the same, so we do not need repeat that work here.
Stack also will tell when disable QoS, this will fix driver when working
with older APs, that do not have QoS implemented.
Patch make "force = true" in iwl_active_qos() assuming we always want
to do with QoS what mac stack wish.
Patch also remove unused qos_cap bits, do not initialize qos_active = 0,
as we have it initialized to zero by kzalloc.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add interface to disable/enable QoS (aka WMM or WME). Currently drivers
enable it explicitly when ->conf_tx method is called, and newer disable.
Disabling is needed for some APs, which do not support QoS, such
we should send QoS frames to them.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Zhu Yi [Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:35:07 +0000 (17:35 +0800)]
mac80211: support paged rx SKBs
Mac80211 drivers can now pass paged SKBs to mac80211 via
ieee80211_rx{_irqsafe}. The implementation currently use
skb_linearize() in a few places i.e. management frame
handling, software decryption, defragmentation and A-MSDU
process. We will optimize them one by one later.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Cc: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Taken from latest ralink linux driver(RT3070_LinuxSTA_V2.3.0.1_20100208)
All of them are RT3070 devices.
Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Taken from latest ralink linux driver, it's a RT3593 PCI/PCIe.
Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It was removed in the windows inf file by ralink.
And it isn't on ralink linux drivers.
Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
wl1271: Fix msleep() delay while waiting for completion
After last transmission, the device goes to sleep earlier
than the configured dynamic power save timeout. If timeout
is set to 400ms, device enters into sleep mode at around
330ms since from last TX.
This patch removes the msleep(1), which causes the delay
after ELP wakeup. Replaced with udelay(10), the variation
is around 7-10ms.
Signed-off-by: Saravanan Dhanabal <ext-saravanan.dhanabal@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Juuso Oikarinen [Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:53:32 +0000 (12:53 +0200)]
wl1271: Enable hardware keep alive messages
This patch will enable the hardware keep-alive mode, configure the required
template, configure keep-alive parameters, and re-order JOIN's and ACX_AID
in such a way that the keep-alive is activated.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Juuso Oikarinen [Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:53:29 +0000 (12:53 +0200)]
wl1271: Disconnect if PSM entry fails
If PSM entry fails despite of retries, assume that the AP has been lost,
and indicate connection loss to the mac80211. This is much safer than
remaining in active mode.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Juuso Oikarinen [Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:53:28 +0000 (12:53 +0200)]
wl1271: Configure probe-request template when associated
Configure a probe-request template to the wl1271 when associated - the
wl1271 will use this to attempt to recover a connection when beacon loss
is detected.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Juuso Oikarinen [Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:53:27 +0000 (12:53 +0200)]
wl1271: Fix memory leak in firmware crash scenario
The driver tx-queue flush operation leaks broadcast-frames. This leak occurs
if the driver is shut down while there are frames in TX buffers (such as in
a firmware crash scenario.) Fix the leak.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Teemu Paasikivi [Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:53:26 +0000 (12:53 +0200)]
wl1271: Removed checking of PSM from handling BSS_LOST_EVENT
Change the driver to call ieee80211_beacon_loss function always when
BSS_LOST_EVENT is received. Reason for the change is that entering PSM
might fail before driver receives BSS_LOST_EVENT. In such case the
driver would disable PSM and the stack would not be notified about beacon
loss and connection loss detection would be delayed by tens of seconds.
Signed-off-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Juuso Oikarinen [Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:53:23 +0000 (12:53 +0200)]
wl1271: Disable connection monitoring while not associated
The wl1271 does not support disabling the connection monitor feature.
Perform the next best thing by increasing the beacon-loss threshold and
BSS_LOSE event timeout to the maximum values.
This is needed, because we really don't want any random probe-requests during
scanning or especially while in ad-hoc mode and not beaconing.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Luciano Coelho [Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:53:22 +0000 (12:53 +0200)]
wl1271: remove deprecated usage of RX status noise
The noise element in the ieee80211_rx_status struct has been deprecated in
commit "mac80211: deprecate RX status noise". Remove the usage of this
element from wl1271_rx.c to avoid warnings.
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Luciano Coelho [Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:53:20 +0000 (12:53 +0200)]
wl1271: wait for join command complete event
Poll for join command completion instead of waiting blindly for 10 msecs.
There is a timeout of 100 msecs, if the command doesn't complete by then, we
return an error code.
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Juuso Oikarinen [Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:53:19 +0000 (12:53 +0200)]
wl1271: Remove device MAC-address randomization
This patch removes the MAC address randomization from the driver. This removes
a nasty Nokia-OUI dependency from the driver.
With this patch, unless an address is explicitly configured to the driver
by the user, only a zero address will be configured, and the driver will be
unable to start.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Juuso Oikarinen [Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:53:18 +0000 (12:53 +0200)]
wl1271: Update busyword checking mechanism
After the busy-words, if the firmware did not complete by the end of the
first (fixed) busy-word, a flip of the CS line is required to enable clocking
out the actual read data.
This patch changes the mechanism such that the CS line is flipped after each
busyword.
Also, the busy-word mechanism is finally enabled, and the number of fixed
busywords reduced to the minimum.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Juuso Oikarinen [Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:53:14 +0000 (12:53 +0200)]
wl1271: Fix memory leak in scan command handling
This patch fixes a memory leak in the scan command handling code.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Juuso Oikarinen [Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:53:13 +0000 (12:53 +0200)]
wl1271: Fix memory leaks in SPI initialization
This patch fixes two memory leaks in the SPI initialization code.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Juuso Oikarinen [Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:53:12 +0000 (12:53 +0200)]
wl1271: Add TX rate reporting
Add reporting of the used TX rate to mac80211 in the tx_status.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Juuso Oikarinen [Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:53:11 +0000 (12:53 +0200)]
wl1271: Clean up RX rate reporting
Clean up the code to convert a firmware rate class index into an index
for the rate configuration table.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Luciano Coelho [Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:53:10 +0000 (12:53 +0200)]
wl1271: fix wl1271_spi driver name
When forward porting some patches to upstream, there was a mistake and the
wl1271_spi driver name remained, erroneously, as "wl1271". This patch fixes
that.
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Bruno Randolf [Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:49:47 +0000 (14:49 +0900)]
ath5k: add capability flag for phyerror counters
Chipsets since revision AR5213A (0x59) have hardware counters for PHY errors
which we can read directly from the registers. Older hardware has to use the RX
descriptor status to get a count of PHY errors. This will be used in several
places in the ANI implementation, so a flag is useful.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Bruno Randolf [Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:49:36 +0000 (14:49 +0900)]
ath5k: simplify MIB counters
Let's keep MIB counter statistics in our own statistics structure and only
convert it to ieee80211_low_level_stats when needed by mac80211. Also we don't
need to read profile count registers in the MIB interrupt (they don't trigger
MIB interrupts).
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Bruno Randolf [Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:49:31 +0000 (14:49 +0900)]
ath5k: initialize default noise floor
Initialize noise floor variable with a default of -95. This was used
uninitialized in the signal strength (RSSI -> dBm) conversion until the first
noise floor calibration was completed.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Wey-Yi Guy [Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:36:09 +0000 (10:36 -0700)]
iwlwifi: change spin_lock to spin_lock_irqsave
Use spin_lock_irqsave() in interrupt handler to disable interrupts locally
and provide the spinlock on SMP. This covers both interrupt and SMP
concurrency.
With this changes, also fix the sparse warning issues.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Wey-Yi Guy [Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:37:49 +0000 (15:37 -0700)]
iwlwifi: remove "\n" from module parameter description
Remove the "\n" from following module parameter description:
- enable wifi/bluetooth co-exist
- led mode: 0=blinking, 1=On(RF On)/Off(RF Off), (default 0)
to be consistence with the rest of iwlagn/iwlcore module parameters format.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:58:27 +0000 (09:58 -0700)]
iwlwifi: remove noise reporting
We go to great lengths to calculate this value
that is never used by mac80211. Additionally,
it is now deprecated by mac80211 and is causing
driver compilation to give warnings.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Wey-Yi Guy [Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:37:28 +0000 (12:37 -0700)]
iwlwifi: remove non-exist extern functions and structures
After re-structure the agn files layout and move all the
agn shared functions out from iwl-5000.c, all those functions and data
structures do not need to be declare "extern" from iwl-5000.c in
iwl-dev.h.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
iwl_good_ack_health only applies to aggregation and thus only to iwlagn. We
can thus move the function to iwlagn instead of modifying compile flags.
This is done in following patch.
John W. Linville [Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:21:08 +0000 (17:21 -0400)]
iwlwifi: fix build error for CONFIG_IWLAGN=n
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c: In function 'iwl_good_ack_health':
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c:647: error: 'struct iwl_priv' has no member named '_agn'
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Juuso Oikarinen [Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:11:14 +0000 (10:11 +0200)]
cfg80211: Improve connection quality maintenance docs in nl80211.h
In nl80211.h, be a little more elaborate in the docs for the definitions
NL80211_ATTR_CQM_RSSI_THOLD and NL80211_ATTR_CQM_RSSI_HYST.
Reported-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Juuso Oikarinen [Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:02:34 +0000 (09:02 +0200)]
mac80211: Add support for connection quality monitoring
Add support for the set_cqm_config op. This op function configures the
requested connection quality monitor rssi threshold and rssi hysteresis
values to the hardware if the hardware supports
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_CQM.
For unsupported hardware, currently -EOPNOTSUPP is returned, so the mac80211
is currently not doing connection quality monitoring on the host. This could be
added later, if needed.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Juuso Oikarinen [Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:02:33 +0000 (09:02 +0200)]
cfg80211: Add connection quality monitoring support to nl80211
Add support for basic configuration of a connection quality monitoring to the
nl80211 interface, and basic support for notifying about triggered monitoring
events.
Via this interface a user-space connection manager may configure and receive
pre-warning events of deteriorating WLAN connection quality, and start
preparing for roaming in advance, before the connection is already lost.
An example usage of such a trigger is starting scanning for nearby AP's in
an attempt to find one with better connection quality, and associate to it
before the connection characteristics of the existing connection become too bad
or the association is even lost, leading in a prolonged delay in connectivity.
The interface currently supports only RSSI, but it could be later extended
to include other parameters, such as signal-to-noise ratio, if need for that
arises.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Amitkumar Karwar [Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:16:36 +0000 (17:16 -0800)]
libertas: add auto auth mode feature
Auto auth mode is enabled by default. If user doesn't specify the
auth mode, while association driver will first try with open mode
and then with shared key mode. If user specifies an auth mode,
auto auth is disabled and driver will not try association with
another auth mode.
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Juuso Oikarinen [Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:14:53 +0000 (07:14 +0200)]
mac80211: Add support for connection monitor in hardware
This patch is based on a RFC patch by Kalle Valo.
The wl1271 has a feature which handles the connection monitor logic
in hardware, basically sending periodically nullfunc frames and reporting
to the host if AP is lost, after attempting to recover by sending
probe-requests to the AP.
Add support to mac80211 by adding a new flag IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR
which prevents conn_mon_timer from triggering during idle periods, and
prevents sending probe-requests to the AP if beacon-loss is indicated by the
hardware.
Cc: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Joe Perches [Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:29:40 +0000 (18:29 -0700)]
drivers/net/wireless/ray_cs.c: Use iw_handler function prototypes
Change local functions that are cast to iw_handler to
the more standard use with "union iwreq_data *wrqu"
so the iw_handler array no longer needs the casts.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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