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2010-04-27mac80211: fix rts threshold checkmaster-2010-04-27Shanyu Zhao
Currently whenever rts thresold is set, every packet will use RTS protection no matter its size exceeds the threshold or not. This is due to a bug in the rts threshold check. if (len > tx->local->hw.wiphy->rts_threshold) { txrc.rts = rts = true; } Basically it is comparing an int (len) and a u32 (rts_threshold), and the variable len is assigned as: len = min_t(int, tx->skb->len + FCS_LEN, tx->local->hw.wiphy->frag_threshold); However, when frag_threshold is "-1", len is always "-1", which is 0xffffffff therefore rts is always set to true. CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Shanyu Zhao <shanyu.zhao@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-27mac80211: give virtual interface to hw_scanJohannes Berg
When scanning, it is somewhat important to scan on the correct virtual interface. All drivers that currently implement hw_scan only support a single virtual interface, but that may change and then we'd want to be ready. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-27cfg80211: Remove default dynamic PS timeout valueJuuso Oikarinen
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>
2010-04-27mac80211: Determine dynamic PS timeout based on ps-qos network latencyJuuso Oikarinen
Determine the dynamic PS timeout based on the configured ps-qos network latency. For backwards wext compatibility, allow the dynamic PS timeout configured by the cfg80211 to overrule the automatically determined value. Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-27mac80211: implement ap isolation supportFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-27cfg80211: add ap isolation supportFelix Fietkau
This is used to configure APs to not bridge traffic between connected stations. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-27mac80211: fix handling of 4-address-mode in ieee80211_change_ifaceFelix Fietkau
A misplaced interface type check bails out too early if the interface is not in monitor mode. This patch moves it to the right place, so that it only covers changes to the monitor flags. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-26mac80211: Fix sta->last_tx_rate setting with no-op rate control devicesJuuso Oikarinen
The sta->last_tx_rate is traditionally updated just before transmitting a frame based on information from the rate control algorithm. However, for hardware drivers with IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL this is not performed, as the rate control algorithm is not executed, and because the used rate is not known before the frame has actually been transmitted. This causes atleast a fixed 1Mb/s to be reported to user space. A few other instances of code also rely on this information. Fix this by setting the sta->last_tx_rate in tx_status handling. There, look for last rates entry set by the driver, and use that as value for sta->last_tx_rate. Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20mac80211: Fix ieee80211_sta_conn_mon_timer with hw connection monitoringmaster-2010-04-20Juuso Oikarinen
When IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR is configured by the driver, starting of ieee80211_sta_conn_mon_timer should be prevented, as it is then not needed. This is currently partially the case. As it seems, when a probe-response is received from the AP the timer is still restarted, thus restarting the host based connection keep-alive mechanism. These probe-responses happen at least when scanning while associated. Fix this by preventing starting of the ieee80211_sta_conn_mon_timer in the ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_resp function. Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20mac80211: sample survey implementation for mac80211 & hwsimHolger Schurig
This adds the survey function to both mac80211 itself and to mac80211_hwsim. For the latter driver, we simply invent some noise level.A real driver which cannot determine the real channel noise MUST NOT report any noise, especially not a magically conjured one :-) Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20ath9k: Group Key fix for VAPsDaniel Yingqiang Ma
When I set up multiple VAPs with ath9k, I encountered an issue that the traffic may be lost after a while. The detailed phenomenon is 1. After a while the clients connected to one of these VAPs will get into a state that no broadcast/multicast packets can be transfered successfully while the unicast packets can be transfered normally. 2. Minutes latter the unitcast packets transfer will fail as well, because the ARP entry is expired and it can't be freshed due to the broadcast trouble. It's caused by the group key overwritten and someone discussed this issue in ath9k-devel maillist before, but haven't work out a fix yet. I referred the method in madwifi, and made a patch for ath9k. The method is to set the high bit of the sender(AP)'s address, and associated that mac and the group key. It requires the hardware supports multicast frame key search. It seems true for AR9160. Not sure whether it's the correct way to fix this issue. But it seems to work in my test. The patch is attached, feel free to revise it. Signed-off-by: Daniel Yingqiang ma <yma.cool@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-19mac80211: add missing newlineJohannes Berg
One HT debugging printk is missing a newline, add it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-19mac80211: Prevent running sta_cleanup timer unnecessarilyJuuso Oikarinen
The sta_cleanup timer is used to periodically expire buffered frames from the tx buf. The timer is executing periodically, regardless of the need for it. This is wasting resources. Fix this simply by not restarting the sta_cleanup timer if the tx buffer was empty. Restart the timer when there is some more tx-traffic. Cc: Janne Ylälehto <janne.ylalehto@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-19mac80211: fix stopping RX BA session from timerJohannes Berg
Kalle reported that his system deadlocks since my recent work in this area. The reason quickly became apparent: we try to cancel_timer_sync() a timer from within itself. Fix that by making the function aware of the context it is called from. Reported-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Tested-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-16cfg80211: Avoid sending IWEVASSOCREQIE and IWEVASSOCRESPIE events with NULL ↵Nishant Sarmukadam
event body In a scenario, where a cfg80211 driver (station mode) does not send assoc request and assoc response IEs in cfg80211_connect_result after a successful association to an AP, cfg80211 sends IWEVASSOCREQIE and IWEVASSOCRESPIE to the user space application with NULL data. This can cause an issue at the event recipient. An example of this is when cfg80211 sends IWEVASSOCREQIE and IWEVASSOCRESPIE events with NULL event body to wpa_supplicant. The wpa_supplicant overwrites the assoc request and assoc response IEs for this station with NULL data. If the association is WPA/WPA2, the wpa_supplicant is not able to generate EAPOL handshake messages, since the IEs are NULL. With the patch, req_ie and resp_ie will be NULL by avoiding the assignment if the driver has not sent the IEs to cfg80211. The event sending code sends the events only if resp_ie and req_ie are not NULL. This will ensure that the events are not sent with NULL event body. Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-09mac80211: check whether scan is in progress before queueing scan_workmaster-2010-04-09Teemu Paasikivi
As scan_work is queued from work_work it needs to be checked if scan has been started during execution of work_work. Otherwise, when hw scan is used, the stack gets error about hw being busy with ongoing scan. This causes the stack to abort scan without notifying the driver about it. This leads to a situation where the hw is scanning and the stack thinks it's not. Then when the scan finishes, the stack will complain by warnings. Signed-off-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-09mac80211: fix typo for LDPC capabilityLuis R. Rodriguez
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-09mac80211: delay skb linearising in rx decryptionZhu Yi
We delay the skb linearising in ieee80211_rx_h_decrypt so that frames do not require software decryption are not linearized. We are safe to do this because ieee80211_get_mmie_keyidx() only requires to touch nonlinear data for management frames, which are already linearized before getting here. Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-08mac80211: enhance tracingJohannes Berg
Enhance tracing by adding tracing for a variety of callbacks that the drivers call, and also for internal calls (currently limited to queue status). This can aid debugging what is going on in mac80211 in interaction with drivers, since we can now see what drivers call and not just what mac80211 calls in the driver. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-08mac80211: Moved mesh action codes to a more visible locationJavier Cardona
Grouped mesh action codes together with the other action codes in ieee80211.h. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-08Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into merge Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/phy.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
2010-04-07mac80211: fix paged RX cryptomaster-2010-04-07Johannes Berg
WEP crypto was broken, but upon finding the problem it is evident that other things were broken by the paged RX patch as well. To fix it, for now move the linearising in front. This means that we linearise all frames, which is not at all what we want, but at least it fixes the problem for now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07mac80211: fix some RX aggregation lockingJohannes Berg
A few places in mac80211 do not currently acquire the sta lock for RX aggregation, but they should. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07mac80211: clean up/fix aggregation codeJohannes Berg
The aggregation code has a number of quirks, like inventing an unneeded WLAN_BACK_TIMER value and leaking memory under certain circumstances during station destruction. Fix these issues by using the regular aggregation session teardown code and blocking new aggregation sessions, all before the station is really destructed. As a side effect, this gets rid of the long code block to destroy aggregation safely. Additionally, rename tid_state_rx which can only have the values IDLE and OPERATIONAL to tid_active_rx to make it easier to understand that there is no bitwise stuff going on on the RX side -- the TX side remains because it needs to keep track of the driver and peer states. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07mac80211: rename WLAN_STA_SUSPEND to WLAN_STA_BLOCK_BAJohannes Berg
I want to use it during station destruction as well so rename it to WLAN_STA_BLOCK_BA which is also the only use of it now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07mac80211: remove ieee80211_sta_stop_rx_ba_sessionJohannes Berg
All callers of ieee80211_sta_stop_rx_ba_session can just call __ieee80211_stop_rx_ba_session instead because they already have the station struct, so do that and remove ieee80211_sta_stop_rx_ba_session. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07mac80211: remove irq disabling for sta lockJohannes Berg
All other places except one in the TX path, which has BHs disabled, and it also cannot be locked from interrupts so disabling IRQs is not necessary. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07mac80211: fix station destruction problemJohannes Berg
When a station w/o a key is destroyed, or when a driver submits work for a station and thereby references it again, it seems like potentially we could reference the station structure while it is being destroyed. Wait for an RCU grace period to elapse before finishing destroying the station after we have removed the station from the driver and from the hash table etc., even in the case where no key is associated with the station. Also, there's no point in deleting the plink timer here since it'll be properly deleted just a bit later. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07cfg80211: Add local-state-change-only auth/deauth/disassocJouni Malinen
cfg80211 is quite strict on allowing authentication and association commands only in certain states. In order to meet these requirements, user space applications may need to clear authentication or association state in some cases. Currently, this can be done with deauth/disassoc command, but that ends up sending out Deauthentication or Disassociation frame unnecessarily. Add a new nl80211 attribute to allow this sending of the frame be skipped, but with all other deauth/disassoc operations being completed. Similar state change is also needed for IEEE 802.11r FT protocol in the FT-over-DS case which does not use Authentication frame exchange in a transition to another BSS. For this to work with cfg80211, an authentication entry needs to be created for the target BSS without sending out an Authentication frame. The nl80211 authentication command can be used for this purpose, too, with the new attribute to indicate that the command is only for changing local state. This enables wpa_supplicant to complete FT-over-DS transition successfully. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-06mac80211: Fix robust management frame handling (MFP)Jouni Malinen
Commit e34e09401ee9888dd662b2fca5d607794a56daf2 incorrectly removed use of ieee80211_has_protected() from the management frame case and in practice, made this validation drop all Action frames when MFP is enabled. This should have only been done for frames with Protected field set to zero. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-06mac80211: annotate station rcu dereferencesJohannes Berg
The new RCU lockdep support warns about these in some contexts -- make it aware of the locks used to protect all this. Different locks are used in different contexts which unfortunately means we can't get perfect checking. Also remove rcu_dereference() from two places that don't actually dereference the pointers. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-06mac80211: Handle mesh action frames in ieee80211_rx_h_actionJavier Cardona
This fixes the problem introduced in commit 8404080568613d93ad7cf0a16dfb68 which broke mesh peer link establishment. changes: v2 Added missing break (Johannes) v3 Broke original patch into two (Johannes) Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-31mac80211: Fix drop_unencrypted for MFP with hwaccelmaster-2010-03-31Jouni Malinen
Commit bef5d1c70d132145c0fc75b3586a19841a9a82e4 split ieee80211_drop_unencrypted() into separate functions that are used for Data and Management frames. However, it did not handle the RX_FLAG_DECRYPTED correctly for Management frames: ieee80211_drop_unencrypted() can only return 0 for Management frames, so there is no point in calling it here. Instead, just check the status->flag directly. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-31nl80211: reenable station del for meshMarco Porsch
iw dev <devname> station del <MAC address> is quiet useful in mesh mode and should be possible. Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-31mac80211: Fix dropping of unprotected robust multicast framesJouni Malinen
When selecting the RX key for group-addressed robust management frames, we do not actually select any BIP key if the frame is unprotected (since we cannot find the key index from MMIE). This results in the drop_unencrypted check in failing to drop the frame. It is enough to verify that we have a STA entry for the transmitter and that MFP is enabled for that STA; we do not need to check rx->key here. This fixes BIP processing for unprotected, group-addressed, robust management frames. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-31mac80211: Fix BIP to be used only with group-addressed framesJouni Malinen
BIP (part of IEEE 802.11w) is only supposed to be used with group-addressed frames. We ended up picking it as a default mechanism for every management whenever we did not have a STA entry for the destination (e.g., for Probe Response to a STA that is not associated). While the extra MMIE in the end of management frames should not break frames completed in most cases, there is no point in doing this. Fix key selection to pick the default management key only if the frame is sent to multicast/broadcast address and the frame is a robust management frame. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-31mac80211: Send deauth/disassoc prior to dropping STA entryJouni Malinen
When management frame protection (IEEE 802.11w) is used, the deauthentication and disassociation frames must be protected whenever the encryption keys are configured. We were removing the STA entry and with it, the keys, just before actually sending out these frames which meant that the frames went out unprotected. The AP will drop them in such a case. Fix this by reordering the operations a bit so that sta_info_destroy_addr() gets called only after ieee80211_send_deauth_disassoc(). Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-31mac80211: Track Beacon signal strength and implement cqm eventsJouni Malinen
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>
2010-03-31mac80211: enable QoS explicitly in AP modeStanislaw Gruszka
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>
2010-03-31mac80211: explicitly disable/enable QoSStanislaw Gruszka
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>
2010-03-31mac80211: support paged rx SKBsZhu Yi
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>
2010-03-31wireless: remove trailing space in messagesFrans Pop
Also correct indentation in net/wireless/reg.c. Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-30mac80211: move netdev queue enabling to correct spotJohannes Berg
"mac80211: fix skb buffering issue" still left a race between enabling the hardware queues and the virtual interface queues. In hindsight it's totally obvious that enabling the netdev queues for a hardware queue when the hardware queue is enabled is wrong, because it could well possible that we can fill the hw queue with packets we already have pending. Thus, we must only enable the netdev queues once all the pending packets have been processed and sent off to the device. In testing, I haven't been able to trigger this race condition, but it's clearly there, possibly only when aggregation is being enabled. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-30mac80211: fix PREQ processing and one small bugPorsch, Marco
1st) a PREQ should only be processed, if it has the same SN and better metric (instead of better or equal). 2nd) next_hop[ETH_ALEN] now actually used to buffer mpath->next_hop->sta.addr for use out of lock. Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@siemens.com> Acked-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-30mac80211: correct typos in "unavailable upon resume" warningJohn W. Linville
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-30wireless: convert reg_regdb_search_lock to mutexJohn W. Linville
Stanse discovered that kmalloc is being called with GFP_KERNEL while holding this spinlock. The spinlock can be a mutex instead, which also enables the removal of the unlock/lock around the lock/unlock of cfg80211_mutex and the call to set_regdom. Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-24mac80211: remove unneed variable from ieee80211_tx_pending()master-2010-03-24Dan Carpenter
We don't need "sdata" any more after: d84f323477260e773d5317ad7cbe50f76115cb47 mac80211: remove dev_hold/put calls Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-24mac80211: Add support for connection quality monitoringJuuso Oikarinen
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>
2010-03-24cfg80211: Add connection quality monitoring support to nl80211Juuso Oikarinen
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>
2010-03-23mac80211: Add support for connection monitor in hardwareJuuso Oikarinen
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>