- 19 Feb, 2010 3 commits
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Kalle Valo authored
The most needed command from nl80211, which Wireless Extensions had, is support for power save mode. Add a simple command to make it possible to enable and disable power save via nl80211. I was also planning about extending the interface, for example adding the timeout value, but after thinking more about this I decided not to do it. Basically there were three reasons: Firstly, the parameters for power save are very much hardware dependent. Trying to find a unified interface which would work with all hardware, and still make sense to users, will be very difficult. Secondly, IEEE 802.11 power save implementation in Linux is still in state of flux. We have a long way to still to go and there is no way to predict what kind of implementation we will have after few years. And because we need to support nl80211 interface a long time, practically forever, adding now parameters to nl80211 might create maintenance problems later on. Third issue are the users. Power save parameters are mostly used for debugging, so debugfs is better, more flexible, interface for this. For example, wpa_supplicant currently doesn't configure anything related to power save mode. It's better to strive that kernel can automatically optimise the power save parameters, like with help of pm qos network and other traffic parameters. Later on, when we have better understanding of power save, we can extend this command with more features, if there's a need for that. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Darren Jenkins authored
fix off by one error in the queue size check of p54_tx_qos_accounting_alloc() Coverity CID: 13314 Signed-off-by: Darren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Pavel Roskin authored
...and use it in hostap_cs and orinoco_cs. Another PCMCIA device with Intersil Prism chipset has been reported: Socket 0: product info: "Gigabyte", "GN-WLM01_P25L_ADAPTER", "ISL37300P", "Eval-RevA" manfid: 0x02e0, 0x1011 function: 6 (network) As it's the case with some other Prism based devices, the third ID string contains a design name that should be sufficient to identify the card as having Intersil Prism chipset and thus compatible with both orinoco_cs and hostap_cs. Introduce PCMCIA_DEVICE_PROD_ID3 that matches the third ID string only. Use it in orinoco_cs and hostap_cs to match cards with the third ID string indicating Prism chipset. Remove corresponding entries that use PCMCIA_DEVICE_PROD_ID123. Reported-by: Ozzy <ozzymud@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- 16 Feb, 2010 3 commits
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Jouni Malinen authored
Instead of hardcoding the lowest rate for Beacon frames, use the rate index specified in the mac80211 TX info in AP mode. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg authored
Currently, ieee80211_drop_unencrypted is called from management and data frame context, and the different contexts pass different frames. This could lead to it processing an 802.3 frame as an 802.11 frame when MFP is enabled. Move the MFP part of ieee80211_drop_unencrypted into a new function that is only called for mgmt frames. Cc: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Pavel Roskin authored
Use spin_[un]lock_bh in mwl8k_sta_notify(). The sta_notify handler is required to be atomic, yet it can be called in process context, so make sure one call won't preempt another. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- 15 Feb, 2010 14 commits
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Jouni Malinen authored
This implements a new command to register for action frames that userspace wants to handle instead of the in-kernel rejection. It is then responsible for rejecting ones that it decided not to handle. There is no unregistration, but the socket can be closed for that. Frames that are not registered for will not be forwarded to userspace and will be rejected by the kernel, the cfg80211 API helps implementing that. Additionally, this patch adds a new command that allows doing action frame transmission from userspace. It can be used either to exchange action frames on the current operational channel (e.g., with the AP with which we are currently associated) or to exchange off-channel Public Action frames with the remain-on-channel command. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg authored
802.11-2007 7.3.1.11 mandates that we need to reject action frames we don't handle by setting the 0x80 bit in the category and returning them to the sender, so do that. In AP mode, hostapd is responsible for this. Additionally, drop completely malformed action frames or ones that should've been encrypted as unusable, userspace shouldn't see those. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Gertjan van Wingerde authored
Support for rt30xx- and rt35xx-based devices is currently not functional in rt2800pci and rt2800usb. In order to not confuse users we shouldn't claim the PCI and USB device ID's for these devices. However, to allow for testing it is good to still have them available, although disabled by default. Make support for these device configuration options that default to off. For rt2800usb a 3rd class of devices is added, which are the unknown devices. For these devices it is known that they are either based on rt28xx, rt30xx or rt35xx, but it is not known on what chipset exactly. These devices are disabled by default as well, until it can be established on what chipset exactly they are based. Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Gertjan van Wingerde authored
The recent rt2800 devices are no longer really identified by their PCI ID's, but rather by the contents of their CSR0 register. Also for the other chipsets is the contents of this CSR0 register important. Change the chipset determination logic to be more aligned with the rt2800 model. Preparation for the support of rt3070 / rt3090 based devices. Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Gertjan van Wingerde authored
Don't set the RT chipset for a device from within the generic PCI/SOC code, but rather from the individual drivers, so that individual drivers have more control over what RT chipset is set. Preparation for chip handling updates for rt2800 devices. Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Gertjan van Wingerde authored
Introduce the SoC interface type to detect SoC devices, instead of having them mimic being PCI devices. This allows for easier detection of SoC devices. Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Shimada Hirofumi authored
Signed-off-by: Shimada Hirofumi <hirofumi@flycat.org> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Hauke Mehrtens authored
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Hauke Mehrtens authored
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br> Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> Acked-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Hauke Mehrtens authored
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it> Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Randy Dunlap authored
When WEXT_PRIV is not enabled, airo_cs has build errors. It needs to include net/iw_handler.h and it should select WEXT_PRIV, like the airo driver does. drivers/net/wireless/airo.c:7655: error: unknown field 'num_private' specified in initializer drivers/net/wireless/airo.c:7655: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast drivers/net/wireless/airo.c:7656: error: unknown field 'num_private_args' specified in initializer drivers/net/wireless/airo.c:7656: warning: excess elements in struct initializer drivers/net/wireless/airo.c:7656: warning: (near initialization for 'airo_handler_def') drivers/net/wireless/airo.c:7658: error: unknown field 'private' specified in initializer drivers/net/wireless/airo.c:7658: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast drivers/net/wireless/airo.c:7658: error: initializer element is not computable at load time drivers/net/wireless/airo.c:7658: error: (near initialization for 'airo_handler_def.num_standard') drivers/net/wireless/airo.c:7659: error: unknown field 'private_args' specified in initializer drivers/net/wireless/airo.c:7659: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo authored
As discussed in linux-wireless mailing list, adding and removing stations for mesh topologies is not necessary. Since doing it triggers bugs, the sugestion was to simply disable it. Tested using a custom iw command "station new". Works only after using hostapd. "station del" command also works. Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Simon Raffeiner <sturmflut@lieberbiber.de> Cc: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Cc: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg authored
Fix a copy bug introduced by commit 47846c9b Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Date: Wed Nov 25 17:46:19 2009 +0100 mac80211: reduce reliance on netdev This manifested itself only in debug messages and in the debugfs rename failure that would always happen due to trying to rename the dir over itself. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Tested-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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John W. Linville authored
Merge branch 'wireless-next-2.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-2.6
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- 12 Feb, 2010 1 commit
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Felix Fietkau authored
Adding support for setting the coverage class in some cases broke association and data transfer, as it overwrote the initial ACK timeout value from the initvals with a smaller value. I don't know why the new value works in 5 GHz (matches the initval there), but not in 2.4 GHz (initvals use 64us here), so until the problem is fully understood, the value should be increased again. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- 11 Feb, 2010 12 commits
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Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen authored
This change monitors the tx statistics to detect the drop in throughput. When the throughput drops, the ratio of the actual_ack_count and the expected_ ack_count also drops. At the same time, the aggregated ba_timeout (the number of ba timeout retries) also rises. If the actual_ack_count/expected_ack_count ratio is 0 and the number of ba timeout retries rises to 16, no tx packets (tcp, udp, or ping - icmp) can be delivered. The driver recovers from this situation by reseting the uCode firmware. If the actual_ack_count/expected_ ack_count ratio drops below 50% (but not 0) and the aggregated ba_timeout retries just exceed 5 (but not 16), then the driver can reset the radio to bring the throughput up. Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
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Wey-Yi Guy authored
All the queues are awake and ready to use after loading firmware, for firmware reload case, if any queues was stopped before reload, mac80211 will wake those queues after restart hardware, so make sure all the flag used to keep track of the queue status are reset correctly. Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
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Stanislaw Gruszka authored
Change pci_alloc_consistent() to dma_alloc_coherent() so we can use GFP_KERNEL flag. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
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Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen authored
While testing the station with the NIC 1000 family, it is found that the plcp error can easily exceed 50 value in 100mSecs. This creates unneccessary radio reset/tuning. This patch raises the PLCP error threshold of the NIC 1000 from 50 to 200 error count. Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
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Reinette Chatre authored
To ensure that card is in a sane state during probe we add a reset call. This change was prompted by users of kdump who was not able to bring up the wireless driver in the kdump kernel. The problem here was that the primary kernel, which is not running at the time, left the wireless card up and running. When the kdump kernel starts it is thus possible to immediately receive interrupts from firmware after registering interrupt, but without being ready to deal with interrupts from firmware yet. Reported-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
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Reinette Chatre authored
There is a problem if an "internal short scan" is in progress when a mac80211 requested scan arrives. If this new scan request arrives within the "next_scan_jiffies" period then driver will immediately return success and complete the scan. The problem here is that the scan has not been fully initialized at this time (is_internal_short_scan is still set to true because of the currently running scan), which results in the scan completion never to be sent to mac80211. At this time also, evan though the internal short scan is still running the state (is_internal_short_scan) will be set to false, so when the internal scan does complete then mac80211 will receive a scan completion. Fix this by checking right away if a scan is in progress when a scan request arrives from mac80211. Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
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Abhijeet Kolekar authored
Cleanup return values and removes unnecessary code. Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
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Wey-Yi Guy authored
Number of calibration op-code are not used by driver, remove those from iwl-commands.h Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
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Wey-Yi Guy authored
Error checking for aggregation frames should go into aggregation queue, if aggregation queue not available, use legacy queue instead. Also make sure the aggregation queue is available to activate, if driver and mac80211 is out-of-sync, try to disable the queue and sync-up with mac80211. Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
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Wey-Yi Guy authored
Adding function to force reset radio or reload firmware from debugfs. Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
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Wey-Yi Guy authored
Provide the function to perform different type of uCode reset/reload operation. When uCode detect error and can not fix itself, this iwl_force_reset() function allow driver to perform the necessary reset/reload functions and help to bring uCode back to normal operation state. Currently only 2 type of force reset are available: - reset radio - reload firmware Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
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Wey-Yi Guy authored
Reset and clear all the tx queues when finished downloading runtime uCode and ready to go into operation mode. Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
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- 10 Feb, 2010 3 commits
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Sujith authored
In associated state, when bringing an interface down, existing BA sessions are torn down. When this is in progress, nothing prevents mac80211 from accepting another BA session start request. Use a new station flag to fix this. Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Deepak Saxena authored
Add support for using the libertas_tf driver on a managed or ad-hoc network. Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@laptop.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Bob Copeland authored
The hardware needs to know what type of frames are being sent in order to fill in various fields, for example the timestamp in probe responses (before this patch, it was always 0). Set it correctly when initializing the TX descriptor. Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- 09 Feb, 2010 2 commits
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Vivek Natarajan authored
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Vivek Natarajan authored
Even if the null data frame is not acked by the AP, mac80211 goes into power save. This might lead to loss of frames from the AP. Prevent this by restarting dynamic_ps_timer when ack is not received for null data frames. Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- 08 Feb, 2010 2 commits
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Vivek Natarajan authored
The current mac80211 implementation enables power save if there is no Tx traffic for a specific timeout. Hence, PS is triggered even if there is a continuous Rx only traffic(like UDP) going on. This makes the drivers to wait on the tim bit in the next beacon to awake which leads to redundant sleep-wake cycles. Fix this by restarting the dynamic ps timer on receiving every data packet. Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Andres Salomon authored
rate_control_alloc is not used by anything outside of ieee80211_init_rate_ctrl_alg. Both are in rate.c; there's no reason to make rate_control_alloc visible outside of it. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@collabora.co.uk> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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