History log of /linux-master/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl1251/cmd.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 398978f7 24-Feb-2020 Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>

wireless: ti: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
introduced in C99:

struct foo {
int stuff;
struct boo array[];
};

By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning
in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which
will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.

Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by
this change:

"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]

This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200225003408.GA28675@embeddedor


# 2b27bdcc 29-May-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 336

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
published by the free software foundation this program is
distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general
public license along with this program if not write to the free
software foundation inc 51 franklin st fifth floor boston ma 02110
1301 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 246 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190530000436.674189849@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 9281691f 07-Jan-2014 David Gnedt <david.gnedt@davizone.at>

wl1251: split RX and TX data path initialisation

Split up data path initialisation into RX and TX data path initialisation
functions. This change is required for channel switching in monitor mode.

Signed-off-by: David Gnedt <david.gnedt@davizone.at>
Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# 64322e28 07-Jan-2014 David Gnedt <david.gnedt@davizone.at>

wl1251: fix scan behaviour while not associated

With a dissasociated card I often encoutered very long scan delays.

My guess is that it has something to do with the cards DTIM handling and
another firmware bug mentioned in the TI WLAN driver, which is described as
the card may never end scanning if the channel is overloaded because it
can't send probe requests. I think the firmware somehow also tries to
receive DTIM messages when the BSSID is not set. Therefore most of the time
it waits for DTIM messages and can't do scanning work.

Anyway we can workaround this misbehaviour by setting the HIGH_PRIORITY
bit for scans in disassociated state.

Signed-off-by: David Gnedt <david.gnedt@davizone.at>
Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# 90921014 20-Nov-2011 Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>

wireless/wl12xx/wl1251: move TI WLAN modules to a common ti subdirectory

Move wl12xx and wl1251 modules into a new drivers/net/wireless/ti
directory. Add a TI WLAN Kconfig option and Makefile to support this
change.

Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>