Eliad Peller [Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:13:10 +0000 (10:13 +0200)]
wl12xx: add channel field to wlvif
add channel into the per-interface data.
mac80211 configures some values (e.g. band, channel)
globally, while we configure them per-interface.
In order to make it easier to keep track of the
configured value for each value while keeping sync
with mac80211, save these values both globally
and per-vif.
Eliad Peller [Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:13:09 +0000 (10:13 +0200)]
wl12xx: add band field to wlvif
add band field into the per-interface data.
mac80211 configures some values (e.g. band, channel)
globally, while we configure them per-interface.
In order to make it easier to keep track of the
configured value for each value while keeping sync
with mac80211, save these values both globally
and per-vif.
Eliad Peller [Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:12:58 +0000 (10:12 +0200)]
wl12xx: move tx_security_seq into wlvif
The last security seq num has to be saved across reconfigs.
Add a new "persistent" struct into wlvif, which won't get
deleted on wl12xx_init_vif_data()
Eliad Peller [Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:12:57 +0000 (10:12 +0200)]
wl12xx: make event handling support multirole
Some events don't indicate the role they are intended for.
In these cases, iterate through all the relevant vifs,
and pass the event to each one of them.
This is only a workaround. future fw releases should indicate
the relevant role_id for such events.
Eliad Peller [Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:12:51 +0000 (10:12 +0200)]
wl12xx: unify STA and AP tx_queue mechanism
Make sta use the global wl->links[hlid].tx_queue (by
considering its links map) instead of wl->tx_queue,
and then unify the tx and tx_reset flows for the
various vifs.
Eliad Peller [Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:12:49 +0000 (10:12 +0200)]
wl12xx: refactor fw init into a new function
The fw boot and initialization currently happens inside the
add_interface() callback. This is wrong, as add_interface is
called for each new vif. However, we due to some fw limitation
(we have to know the actual mac address on boot), we can't
completely move it into the start() callback.
Until the fw will be fixed, refactor the fw init into
a new function, and call it from add_interface()
Eliad Peller [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 09:56:05 +0000 (11:56 +0200)]
wl12xx: move ap_hlid_map into wlvif.ap
Add wlvif->links_map bitmap to represent all the links
allocated for this vif.
AP vif also has a sta_hlid_map bitmap, which represents
the links stations connected to it (sta_hlid_bitmap is
a subset of wlvif->links_map, which itself is a subset
of the global wl->links_map)
Eliad Peller [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 09:55:41 +0000 (11:55 +0200)]
wl12xx: define wl12xx_vif
Define a per-vif data struct.
This struct holds all the vif-specifc data, which is
currently being hold by the global wl struct.
Start by moving the basic_rate_set field into it.
NOTE: in order to make the patches a bit smaller, start by
using wl->vif in some functions, instead of changing all
the function prototypes at once. finally, wl->vif will be
removed altogether.
Eliad Peller [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 09:55:39 +0000 (11:55 +0200)]
wl12xx: replace wl->mac_addr with vif->addr
The mac address of the interface already exists in vif->addr.
Use it instead of wl->mac_addr.
It seems that due to some fw bug, we still need to set nvs->mac
to the actual mac addresss, otherwise the fw doesn't function
well (e.g. can't get dhcp address).
Thus, use wl->mac_addr for this purpose, and don't delete it yet.
Shahar Levi [Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:01:33 +0000 (13:01 +0300)]
wl12xx: Add support for HW channel switch
The wl12xx FW supports HW channel switch. If we don't use it,
sometimes the firmware gets confused when recalibrating to the new
channel, causing RX problems. This commit adds HW channel switch
support by implementing the channell_switch op.
Signed-off-by: Shahar Levi <shahar_levi@ti.com>
[added one comment, remove the tx_flush and rephrased the commit message] Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
The wiphy max_sched_scan_ie_len attribute was not set correctly and
remained as 0, so when IEs were being passed in a scheduled scan, we
were returning -EINVAL.
Eliad Peller [Mon, 3 Oct 2011 10:06:36 +0000 (12:06 +0200)]
wl12xx: configure rate policy for p2p operations
p2p packets should go out only with OFDM rates.
Configure a new rate policy that will (later) be used
during p2p_find (when the p2p_cli / p2p_go interfaces
are in use, we won't have to use this policy, as
the configured rates should already be OFDM-only).
Additionally, update CONF_TX_MAX_RATE_CLASSES to reflect
the current value from the fw api.
ath9k_hw: set pci_express capability true for AR9480
the AR_SREV register does not seems to indicate whether AR9480 is
pci_express capable or not though the other information like macVersion
etc can be obtained properly. this fix is essential as ASPM won't be intialized
and its related driver functionality ath9k_hw_configpcipowersave won't be
called
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
this patch fixes the assumption of maximum number of GPIO pins present
in AR9287/AR9300. this fix is essential as we might encounter some
functionality issues involved in accessing the status of GPIO pins which
are all incorrectly assumed to be not within the range of max_num_gpio
of AR9300/AR9287 chipsets
Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Daniel Drake [Mon, 3 Oct 2011 10:33:02 +0000 (11:33 +0100)]
libertas: detect TX lockups and reset hardware
Recent patches added support for resetting the SD8686 hardware when
commands time out, which seems to happen quite frequently soon after
resuming the system from a Wake-on-WLAN-triggered resume.
At http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10969 we see the same thing happen
with transmits. In this case, the hardware will fail to respond to
a frame passed for transmission, and libertas (correctly) will block
all further commands and transmissions as the hardware can only
deal with one thing at a time. This results in a lockup while the
system waits indefinitely for the dead card to respond.
Hook up a TX lockup timer to detect this and reset the hardware.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Don Fry [Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:40:20 +0000 (11:40 -0700)]
iwlagn: rename iwlagn module iwlwifi and alias to iwlagn.
Rename the iwlagn module as iwlwifi in preparation for future
changes. Add an alias to iwlagn for backward compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Don Fry <donald.h.fry@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In failure case locks are not allocated in mwifiex_register().
So mwifiex_free_lock_list() routine call becomes redundant.
Also we don't need to check return type for mwifiex_init_lock_list()
routine. It never fails.
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>
The commit "mwifiex: remove list traversal.."(fcf2176c87..)
wrongly modifies AMSDU aggregation check. Due to this even though
packet size for iperf traffic is already large, we unnecessarily
try to aggregate them which adds some delay. If Tx iperf is started
on UUT for 30 seconds, UUT keeps sending Tx packets for few more
seconds.
That commit is reverted to fix the problem.
Also, MIN_NUM_AMSDU check is moved inside the loop to optimize the
loop.
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This was reported and tested by Martin Walter over at AVM GmbH Berlin.
This also applies to 3.0.1 so sendint to stable.
Cc: s.kirste@avm.de Cc: d.friedel@avm.de Cc: Martin Walter <m.walter@avm.de> Cc: Peter Grabienski <pgrabien@qca.qualcomm.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Tested-by: Martin Walter <m.walter@avm.de> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mac80211: Send nullfunc frames at lower rate during connection monitor
Recently mac80211 was changed to use nullfunc instead of probe
request for connection monitoring for tx ack status reporting
hardwares. Sometimes in congested network, STA got disconnected
quickly after the association. It was observered that the rate
control was not adopted to environment due to minimal transmission.
As the nullfunc are used for monitoring purpose, these frames should
not be sacrificed for rate control updation. So it is better to send
the monitoring null func frames at minimum rate that could help to
retain the connection.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sangwook Lee [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:57:17 +0000 (12:57 +0100)]
net:rfkill: add a gpio setup function into GPIO rfkill
Add a gpio setup function which gives a chance to set up
platform specific configuration such as pin multiplexing,
input/output direction at the runtime or booting time.
Signed-off-by: Sangwook Lee <sangwook.lee@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Kalle Valo [Mon, 3 Oct 2011 10:44:40 +0000 (13:44 +0300)]
ath6kl: include vmalloc.h in debug.c
Fixes compilation errors when compiling for ARM:
ath6kl/debug.c:312: error: implicit declaration of function 'vmalloc'
ath6kl/debug.c:312: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
ath6kl/debug.c:342: error: implicit declaration of function 'vfree'
ath6kl/debug.c:696: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
ath6kl/debug.c:871: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Kalle Valo [Sat, 1 Oct 2011 06:43:09 +0000 (09:43 +0300)]
ath6kl: fix size_t related warnings
My earlier debug log additions added these warnings when compiling 64 bit
kernels:
ath6kl/init.c:962: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int',
but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
ath6kl/init.c:975: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int',
but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
ath6kl/init.c:988: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int',
but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
ath6kl/init.c:1009: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int',
but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
ath6kl/init.c:1192: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int',
but argument 4 has type 'size_t'
ath6kl/init.c:1236: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int',
but argument 4 has type 'size_t'
ath6kl/init.c:1267: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int',
but argument 4 has type 'size_t'
Reported-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:04:40 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
mac80211: document client powersave
With the addition of uAPSD and driver buffering
the powersave handling has gotten quite complex.
Add a section to the documentation to explain it
for anyone wanting to implement it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:04:39 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
mac80211: allow out-of-band EOSP notification
iwlwifi has a separate EOSP notification from
the device, and to make use of that properly
it needs to be passed to mac80211. To be able
to mix with tx_status_irqsafe and rx_irqsafe
it also needs to be an "_irqsafe" version in
the sense that it goes through the tasklet,
the actual flag clearing would be IRQ-safe
but doing it directly would cause reordering
issues.
This is needed in the case of a P2P GO going
into an absence period without transmitting
any frames that should be driver-released as
in this case there's no other way to inform
mac80211 that the service period ended. Note
that for drivers that don't use the _irqsafe
functions another version of this function
will be required.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:04:38 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
mac80211: explicitly notify drivers of frame release
iwlwifi needs to know the number of frames that are
going to be sent to a station while it is asleep so
it can properly handle the uCode blocking of that
station.
Before uAPSD, we got by by telling the device that
a single frame was going to be released whenever we
encountered IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE. With
uAPSD, however, that is no longer possible since
there could be more than a single frame.
To support this model, add a new callback to notify
drivers when frames are going to be released.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:04:36 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
mac80211: optimise station flags
The flaglock in struct sta_info has long been
something that I wanted to get rid of, this
finally does the conversion to atomic bitops.
The conversion itself is straight-forward in
most places, a few things needed to change a
bit since we can no longer use multiple bits
at the same time.
On x86-64, this is a fairly significant code
size reduction:
text data bss dec hex
427861 23648 1008 452517 6e7a5 before
425383 23648 976 450007 6ddd7 after
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:04:35 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
mac80211: reply only once to each PS-poll
If a PS-poll frame is retried (but was received)
there is no way to detect that since it has no
sequence number. As a consequence, the standard
asks us to not react to PS-poll frames until the
response to one made it out (was ACKed or lost).
Implement this by using the WLAN_STA_SP flags to
also indicate a PS-Poll "service period" and the
IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_EOSP flag for the response
packet to indicate the end of the "SP" as usual.
We could use separate flags, but that will most
likely completely confuse drivers, and while the
standard doesn't exclude simultaneously polling
using uAPSD and PS-Poll, doing that seems quite
problematic.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:04:33 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
mac80211: implement uAPSD
Add uAPSD support to mac80211. This is probably not
possible with all devices, so advertising it with
the cfg80211 flag will be left up to drivers that
want it.
Due to my previous patches it is now a fairly
straight-forward extension. Drivers need to have
accurate TX status reporting for the EOSP frame.
For drivers that buffer themselves, the provided
APIs allow releasing the right number of frames,
but then drivers need to set EOSP and more-data
themselves. This is documented in more detail in
the new code itself.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:04:32 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
mac80211: allow releasing driver-buffered frames
If there are frames for a station buffered in
the driver, mac80211 announces those in the TIM
IE but there's no way to release them. Add new
API to release such frames and use it when the
station polls for a frame.
Since the API will soon also be used for uAPSD
it is easily extensible.
Note that before this change drivers announcing
driver-buffered frames in the TIM bit actually
will respond to a PS-Poll with a potentially
lower priority frame (if there are any frames
buffered in mac80211), after this patch a driver
that hasn't been changed will no longer respond
at all. This only affects ath9k, which will need
to be fixed to implement the new API.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:04:31 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
mac80211: clear more-data bit on filtered frames
It doesn't seem likely, but maybe possible, that the
more-data bit needs to be recomputed due to changes
in the queued frames. Clear it for filtered frames
to ensure that we never send it incorrectly. It'll
be set again as necessary when we retransmit this
frame.
The more likely case is maybe where the station woke
up after the filtered frame in which case more-data
should be clear when the frame is transmitted to the
station since it is now awake.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:04:29 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
mac80211: split PS buffers into ACs
For uAPSD support we'll need to have per-AC PS
buffers. As this is a major undertaking, split
the buffers before really adding support for
uAPSD. This already makes some reference to the
uapsd_queues variable, but for now that will
never be non-zero.
Since book-keeping is complicated, also change
the logic for keeping a maximum of frames only
and allow 64 frames per AC (up from 128 for a
station).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:04:28 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
mac80211: also expire filtered frames
mac80211 will expire normal PS-buffered frames, but
if the device rejected some frames for a sleeping
station, these won't be on the ps_tx_buf queue but
on the tx_filtered queue instead; this is done to
avoid reordering.
However, mac80211 will not expire frames from the
filtered queue, let's fix that.
Also add a more comments to what all this expiry is
doing and how it works.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:04:27 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
mac80211: unify TIM bit handling
Currently, the TIM bit for a given station is set
and cleared all over the place. Since the logic to
set/clear it will become much more complex when we
add uAPSD support, as a first step let's collect
the entire logic in one place. This requires a few
small adjustments to other places.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:04:26 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
mac80211: let drivers inform it about per TID buffered frames
For uAPSD implementation, it is necessary to know on
which ACs frames are buffered. mac80211 obviously
knows about the frames it has buffered itself, but
with aggregation many drivers buffer frames. Thus,
mac80211 needs to be informed about this.
For now, since we don't have APSD in any form, this
will unconditionally set the TIM bit for the station
but later with uAPSD only some ACs might cause the
TIM bit to be set.
ath9k is the only driver using this API and I only
modify it in the most basic way, it won't be able
to implement uAPSD with this yet. But it can't do
that anyway since there's no way to selectively
release frames to the peer yet.
Since drivers will buffer frames per TID, let them
inform mac80211 on a per TID basis, mac80211 will
then sort out the AC mapping itself.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Mark the STA entries of enabled TDLS peers with a new "peer authorized"
flag.
During link setup, allow special TDLS setup frames through the AP, but
otherwise drop all packets destined to the peer. This is required by the
TDLS (802.11z) specification in order to prevent reordering of MSDUs
between the AP and direct paths.
When setup completes and the peer is authorized, send data directly,
bypassing the AP.
In the Rx path, allow data to be received directly from TDLS peers.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Cc: Kalyan C Gaddam <chakkal@iit.edu> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
nl80211/mac80211: allow adding TDLS peers as stations
When adding a TDLS peer STA, mark it with a new flag in both nl80211 and
mac80211. Before adding a peer, make sure the wiphy supports TDLS and
our operating mode is appropriate (managed).
In addition, make sure all peers are removed on disassociation.
A TDLS peer is first added just before link setup is initiated. In later
setup stages we have more info about peer supported rates, capabilities,
etc. This info is reported via nl80211_set_station().
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Cc: Kalyan C Gaddam <chakkal@iit.edu> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mac80211: handle TDLS high-level commands and frames
Register and implement the TDLS cfg80211 callback functions.
Internally prepare and send TDLS management frames. We incorporate
local STA capabilities and supported rates with extra IEs given by
usermode. The resulting packet is either encapsulated in a data frame,
or assembled as an action frame. It is transmitted either directly or
through the AP, as mandated by the TDLS specification.
Declare support for the TDLS external setup wiphy capability. This
tells usermode to handle link setup and discovery on its own, and use the
kernel driver for sending TDLS mgmt packets.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Cc: Kalyan C Gaddam <chakkal@iit.edu> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add support for sending high-level TDLS commands and TDLS frames via
NL80211_CMD_TDLS_OPER and NL80211_CMD_TDLS_MGMT, respectively. Add
appropriate cfg80211 callbacks for lower level drivers.
Add wiphy capability flags for TDLS support and advertise them via
nl80211.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Cc: Kalyan C Gaddam <chakkal@iit.edu> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
iwlagn: iwl-agn-rs: remove unnecessary null check for sta and lq_sta
both sta and lq_sta are guaranteed to be not null in the
calling function so we don't need to check them here.
Signed-off-by: Greg Dietsche <Gregory.Dietsche@cuw.edu> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:56:12 +0000 (20:56 +0200)]
cfg80211/mac80211: apply station uAPSD parameters selectively
Currently, when hostapd sets the station as authorized
we also overwrite its uAPSD parameter. This obviously
leads to buggy behaviour (later, with my patches that
actually add uAPSD support). To fix this, only apply
those parameters if they were actually set in nl80211,
and to achieve that add a bitmap of things to apply.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Making adding and deleting virtual interfaces dynamic. Adding
handlers for creating and deleting virtual interface with
given name and dev respectively.
Also, creating default interface of type station on insmod of
the driver.
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
"iw dev mlan0 link" shows wrong data rate, because data rate is
not sent properly to cfg80211 stack. Also stack is not updated
with mcs and Tx data flags information.
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>
In disconnected state "iw dev mlan0 link" command will return
from cfg80211 stack itself. We also have an error check in
mwifiex_cfg80211_get_station() routine. Therefore the code
under "if (!priv->media_connected)" condition in
mwifiex_rate_ioctl_get_rate_value() routine becomes unreachable.
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>
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