History log of /linux-master/net/mac80211/Makefile
Revision Date Author Comments
# 9d0480a7 29-Jan-2024 Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

wifi: mac80211: move element parsing to a new file

This code got really big, move it to a new file.
Pure code move.

Link: https://msgid.link/20240129202041.7f27f7c895e4.I0adfc28bd656a4d44c2bf47966277eecf56cbaa0@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# d34be431 11-Dec-2023 Evan Quan <quanliangl@hotmail.com>

wifi: mac80211: Add support for WBRF features

To support the WBRF mechanism, Wifi adapters utilized in the system must
register the frequencies in use (or unregister those frequencies no longer
used) via the dedicated calls. So that, other drivers responding to the
frequencies can take proper actions to mitigate possible interference.

Co-developed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
Co-developed-by: Evan Quan <quanliangl@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Evan Quan <quanliangl@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ma Jun <Jun.Ma2@amd.com>
Link: https://msgid.link/20231211100630.2170152-5-Jun.Ma2@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# ffbd0c8c 27-Aug-2023 Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

wifi: mac80211: add an element parsing unit test

Add a unit test for the parsing of a fragmented sta profile
sub-element inside a fragmented multi-link element.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230827135854.333bc75df13f.I0ddfeb6a88a4d89e7c7850e8ef45a4b19b5a061a@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# e73b5e51 02-Sep-2022 Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

wifi: mac80211: move link code to a new file

We probably should've done that originally, we already have
about 300 lines of code there, and will add more. Move all
the link code we wrote to a new file.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# a1de6407 14-Feb-2022 Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>

mac80211: Handle station association response with EHT

When the association is an EHT association, parse the EHT
element from the association response and update the
station's EHT capabilities accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220214173004.f33574718755.I21182234c5303d9423eabd5eb997e7cf75f8e0c8@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# cbda98c7 15-Jan-2021 Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>

mac80211: remove legacy minstrel rate control

Now that minstrel_ht supports legacy rates, it is no longer needed

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210115120242.89616-4-nbd@nbd.name
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# 12bf8fad 05-Oct-2020 Thomas Pedersen <thomas@adapt-ip.com>

mac80211: initialize last_rate for S1G STAs

last_rate is initialized to zero by sta_info_alloc(), but
this indicates legacy bitrate for the last TX rate (and
invalid for the last RX rate). To avoid a warning when
decoding the last rate as legacy (before a data frame
has been sent), initialize them as S1G MCS.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@adapt-ip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201005164522.18069-2-thomas@adapt-ip.com
[rename to ieee80211_s1g_sta_rate_init(), seems more appropriate]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# db3e1c40 18-Nov-2019 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>

mac80211: Import airtime calculation code from mt76

Felix recently added code to calculate airtime of packets to the mt76
driver. Import this into mac80211 so we can use it for airtime queue limit
calculations.

The airtime.c file is copied verbatim from the mt76 driver, and adjusted to
be usable in mac80211. This involves:

- Switching to mac80211 data structures.
- Adding support for 160 MHz channels and HE mode.
- Moving the symbol and duration calculations around a bit to avoid
rounding with the higher rates and longer symbol times used for HE rates.

The per-rate TX rate calculation is also split out to its own function so
it can be used directly for the AQL calculations later.

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191119060610.76681-3-kyan@google.com
[fix HE_GROUP_IDX() to use 3 * bw, since there are 3 _gi values]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# b1c4f683 06-Oct-2018 Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>

mac80211: minstrel: merge with minstrel_ht, always enable VHT support

Legacy-only devices are not very common and the overhead of the extra
code for HT and VHT rates is not big enough to justify all those extra
lines of code to make it optional.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# 41cbb0f5 09-Jun-2018 Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>

mac80211: add support for HE

Add support for HE in mac80211 conforming with P802.11ax_D1.4.

Johannes: Fix another bug with the buf_size comparison in agg-rx.c.

Signed-off-by: Liad Kaufman <liad.kaufman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <idox.yariv@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 4133da73 10-Oct-2017 Xiang Gao <qasdfgtyuiop@gmail.com>

mac80211: aead api to reduce redundancy

Currently, the aes_ccm.c and aes_gcm.c are almost line by line copy of
each other. This patch reduce code redundancy by moving the code in these
two files to crypto/aead_api.c to make it a higher level aead api. The
file aes_ccm.c and aes_gcm.c are removed and all the functions there are
now implemented in their headers using the newly added aead api.

Signed-off-by: Xiang Gao <qasdfgtyuiop@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# 6bdf1e0e 14-Dec-2016 Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

Makefile: drop -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ from cflags

That's the default now, no need for makefiles to set it.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>


# 39404fee 26-Oct-2016 Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>

mac80211: FILS AEAD protection for station mode association frames

This adds support for encrypting (Re)Association Request frame and
decryption (Re)Association Response frame when using FILS in station
mode.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# 6f1f5d5f 14-Oct-2015 Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

mac80211: remove event.c

That file contains just a single function, which itself is just a
single statement to call a different function. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# 727da60b 15-Jul-2015 Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>

mac80211: deinline drv_sta_state

With this .config: http://busybox.net/~vda/kernel_config,
after deinlining the function size is 3132 bytes and there are
7 callsites.

Total size reduction: about 20 kbytes.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
CC: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# 8ade538b 24-Jan-2015 Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>

mac80111: Add BIP-GMAC-128 and BIP-GMAC-256 ciphers

This allows mac80211 to configure BIP-GMAC-128 and BIP-GMAC-256 to the
driver and also use software-implementation within mac80211 when the
driver does not support this with hardware accelaration.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# 00b9cfa3 24-Jan-2015 Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>

mac80111: Add GCMP and GCMP-256 ciphers

This allows mac80211 to configure GCMP and GCMP-256 to the driver and
also use software-implementation within mac80211 when the driver does
not support this with hardware accelaration.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
[remove a spurious newline]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# 239281f8 03-Nov-2014 Rostislav Lisovy <lisovy@gmail.com>

mac80211: 802.11p OCB mode support

This patch adds 802.11p OCB (Outside the Context of a BSS) mode
support.

When communicating in OCB mode a mandatory wildcard BSSID
(48 '1' bits) is used.

The EDCA parameters handling function was changed to support
802.11p specific values.

The insertion of a newly discovered STAs is done in the similar way
as in the IBSS mode -- through the deferred insertion.

The OCB mode uses a periodic 'housekeeping task' for expiration of
disconnected STAs (in the similar manner as in the MESH mode).

New Kconfig option for verbose OCB debugging outputs is added.

Signed-off-by: Rostislav Lisovy <rostislav.lisovy@fel.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# b7ffbd7e 04-Jun-2014 Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

cfg80211: make ethtool the driver's responsibility

Currently, cfg80211 tries to implement ethtool, but that doesn't
really scale well, with all the different operations. Make the
lower-level driver responsible for it, which currently only has
an effect on mac80211. It will similarly not scale well at that
level though, since mac80211 also has many drivers.

To cleanly implement this in mac80211, introduce a new file and
move some code to appropriate places.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# 20edb50e 30-May-2014 John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

mac80211: remove PID rate control

Minstrel has long since proven its worth.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# 95224fe8 01-May-2014 Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>

mac80211: move TDLS code to another file

With new additions planned, this code is getting too big for cfg.c.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arikx.nemtsov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# 3f52b7e3 30-Jan-2013 Marco Porsch <marco@cozybit.com>

mac80211: mesh power save basics

Add routines to
- maintain a PS mode for each peer and a non-peer PS mode
- indicate own PS mode in transmitted frames
- track neighbor STAs power modes
- buffer frames when neighbors are in PS mode
- add TIM and Awake Window IE to beacons
- release frames in Mesh Peer Service Periods

Add local_pm to sta_info to represent the link-specific power
mode at this station towards the remote station. When a peer
link is established, use the default power mode stored in mesh
config. Update the PS status if the peering status of a neighbor
changes.
Maintain a mesh power mode for non-peer mesh STAs. Set the
non-peer power mode to active mode during peering. Authenticated
mesh peering is currently not working when either node is
configured to be in power save mode.

Indicate the current power mode in transmitted frames. Use QoS
Nulls to indicate mesh power mode transitions.
For performance reasons, calls to the function setting the frame
flags are placed in HWMP routing routines, as there the STA
pointer is already available.

Add peer_pm to sta_info to represent the peer's link-specific
power mode towards the local station. Add nonpeer_pm to
represent the peer's power mode towards all non-peer stations.
Track power modes based on received frames.

Add the ps_data structure to ieee80211_if_mesh (for TIM map, PS
neighbor counter and group-addressed frame buffer).

Set WLAN_STA_PS flag for STA in PS mode to use the unicast frame
buffering routines in the tx path. Update num_sta_ps to buffer
and release group-addressed frames after DTIM beacons.

Announce the awake window duration in beacons if in light or
deep sleep mode towards any peer or non-peer. Create a TIM IE
similarly to AP mode and add it to mesh beacons. Parse received
Awake Window IEs and check TIM IEs for buffered frames.

Release frames towards peers in mesh Peer Service Periods. Use
the corresponding trigger frames and monitor the MPSP status.
Append a QoS Null as trigger frame if neccessary to properly end
the MPSP. Currently, in HT channels MPSPs behave imperfectly and
show large delay spikes and frame losses.

Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivan Bezyazychnyy <ivan.bezyazychnyy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Krinkin <krinkin.m.u@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# 818255ea 10-Oct-2012 Mahesh Palivela <maheshp@posedge.com>

mac80211: VHT peer STA caps

Save the AP's VHT capabilities (in managed
mode) and make them available to the driver
in the station information.

Unlike HT capabilities, they aren't restricted
to the common capabilities, so drivers must be
aware of their own capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Palivela <maheshp@posedge.com>
[fix endian conversion bug ...]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# 011ad0e9 21-Jun-2012 Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

mac80211: rename driver-trace file

This file will contain more soon, so
rename it to just trace.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# bdcbd8e0 22-Jun-2012 Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

mac80211: clean up debugging

There are a few things that make the logging and
debugging in mac80211 less useful than it should
be right now:
* a lot of messages should be pr_info, not pr_debug
* wholesale use of pr_debug makes it require *both*
Kconfig and dynamic configuration
* there are still a lot of ifdefs
* the style is very inconsistent, sometimes the
sdata->name is printed in front

Clean up everything, introducing new macros and
separating out the station MLME debugging into
a new Kconfig symbol.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>


# 2eb278e0 05-Jun-2012 Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

mac80211: unify SW/offload remain-on-channel

Redesign all the off-channel code, getting rid of
the generic off-channel work concept, replacing
it with a simple remain-on-channel list.

This fixes a number of small issues with the ROC
implementation:
* offloaded remain-on-channel couldn't be queued,
now we can queue it as well, if needed
* in iwlwifi (the only user) offloaded ROC is
mutually exclusive with scanning, use the new
queue to handle that case -- I expect that it
will later depend on a HW flag

The bigger issue though is that there's a bad bug
in the current implementation: if we get a mgmt
TX request while HW roc is active, and this new
request has a wait time, we actually schedule a
software ROC instead since we can't guarantee the
existing offloaded ROC will still be that long.
To fix this, the queuing mechanism was needed.

The queuing mechanism for offloaded ROC isn't yet
optimal, ideally we should add API to have the HW
extend the ROC if needed. We could add that later
but for now use a software implementation.

Overall, this unifies the behaviour between the
offloaded and software-implemented case as much
as possible.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# dbf498fb 31-Mar-2012 Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>

mac80211: Implement mesh synchronization framework

This patch adds MBSS extensible synchronization framework (Sec.
13.13.2 of IEEE Std. 802.11-2012).

The framework is implemented via an ops table which defines the
following functions:

rx_bcn_presp() - this is called every time a mesh beacon is
received.
adjust_tbtt() - this is called immediately before a beacon is about
to be transmitted.

The default neighbor offset synchronization defined in the standard is
implemented. We also provide template functions for vendor specific
methods.

When neighbor offset synchronization is active (which is the default)
mesh neighbors in the same MBSS will track timing offsets to each other
and compensate clock drift.

In our tests we observed that this mesh synchronization implementation
successfully corrected drifts between stations of ~2PPM while
introducing a jitter of ~20us.

It is also possible to test this framework on mac80211_hwsim simulated
phys to see how it behaves under different topologies, over poor links,
etc.

Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@s2005.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Zubarev <pavel.zubarev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# 66e67e41 20-Jan-2012 Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

mac80211: redesign auth/assoc

This is the second part of the auth/assoc redesign,
the mac80211 part. This moves the auth/assoc code
out of the work abstraction and into the MLME, so
that we don't flip channels all the time etc.

The only downside is that when we are associated,
we need to drop the association in order to create
a connection to another AP, but for most drivers
this is actually desirable and the ability to do
was never used by any applications. If we want to
implement resource reservation with FT-OTA, we'd
probably best do it with explicit R-O-C in wpa_s.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# 61c0d48f 25-Nov-2011 Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

mac80211: remove tracing config symbol

There's little point in this config symbol, if
tracing is disabled the overhead is negligible
and if you think it's too bad you can always
turn off tracing completely.

Also remove the part where we don't have sparse
check the tracing code -- it seems that it can
now deal with it (or the code changed).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# ec8aa669 13-May-2010 Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>

mac80211: add the minstrel_ht rate control algorithm

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# f444de05 05-May-2010 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

cfg80211/mac80211: better channel handling

Currently (all tested with hwsim) you can do stupid
things like setting up an AP on a certain channel,
then adding another virtual interface and making
that associate on another channel -- this will make
the beaconing to move channel but obviously without
the necessary IEs data update.

In order to improve this situation, first make the
configuration APIs (cfg80211 and nl80211) aware of
multi-channel operation -- we'll eventually need
that in the future anyway. There's one userland API
change and one API addition. The API change is that
now SET_WIPHY must be called with virtual interface
index rather than only wiphy index in order to take
effect for that interface -- luckily all current
users (hostapd) do that. For monitor interfaces, the
old setting is preserved, but monitors are always
slaved to other devices anyway so no guarantees.

The second userland API change is the introduction
of a per virtual interface SET_CHANNEL command, that
hostapd should use going forward to make it easier
to understand what's going on (it can automatically
detect a kernel with this command).

Other than mac80211, no existing cfg80211 drivers
are affected by this change because they only allow
a single virtual interface.

mac80211, however, now needs to be aware that the
channel settings are per interface now, and needs
to disallow (for now) real multi-channel operation,
which is another important part of this patch.

One of the immediate benefits is that you can now
start hostapd to operate on a hardware that already
has a connection on another virtual interface, as
long as you specify the same channel.

Note that two things are left unhandled (this is an
improvement -- not a complete fix):

* different HT/no-HT modes

currently you could start an HT AP and then
connect to a non-HT network on the same channel
which would configure the hardware for no HT;
that can be fixed fairly easily

* CSA

An AP we're connected to on a virtual interface
might indicate switching channels, and in that
case we would follow it, regardless of how many
other interfaces are operating; this requires
more effort to fix but is pretty rare after all

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# b203ffc3 23-Dec-2009 Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>

mac80211: Generalize off-channel operation helpers from scan code

The off-channel operations for going into power save mode (station
mode) or stop beaconing (AP/IBSS) are not limited to scanning. Move
these into a separate file and allow them to be used for other
purposes, too.

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>


# af6b6374 23-Dec-2009 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

mac80211: generalise work handling

In order to use auth/assoc for different purposes
other than MLME, it needs to be split up. For other
purposes, a generic work handling (potentially on
another channel) will be useful.

To achieve that, this patch moves much of the MLME
work handling out of mlme into a new work API. The
API can currently handle probing a specific AP,
authentication and association. The MLME previously
handled probe/authentication as one step and will
continue to do so, but they are separate in the new
work handling.

Work items are RCU-managed to be able to check for
existence of an item for a specific frame in the RX
path, but they can be re-used which the MLME right
now will do for its combined probe/auth step.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# fe7a5d5c 18-Nov-2009 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

mac80211: move TX status handling

It's enough code to have its own file, I think.
Especially since I'm going to add to it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# a9a11622 26-Jul-2009 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

cfg80211: self-contained wext handling where possible

Finally! This is what you've all been waiting for!

This patch makes cfg80211 take care of wext emulation
_completely_ by itself, drivers that don't need things
cfg80211 doesn't do yet don't even need to be aware of
wireless extensions.
This means we can also clean up mac80211's and iwm's
Kconfig and make it possible to build them w/o wext
now!

RIP wext.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# 0a2b8bb2 07-Jul-2009 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

mac80211: driver operation debugging

This makes mac80211 use the event tracing framework
to log all operations as given to the driver. This
will need to be extended with more information, but
as a start it should be good.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# 46900298 14-Feb-2009 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

mac80211: split IBSS/managed code

This patch splits out the ibss code and data from managed (station) mode.
The reason to do this is to better separate the state machines, and have
the code be contained better so it gets easier to determine what exactly
a given change will affect, that in turn makes it easier to understand.

This is quite some churn, especially because I split sdata->u.sta into
sdata->u.mgd and sdata->u.ibss, but I think it's easier to maintain that
way. I've also shuffled around some code -- null function sending is only
applicable to managed interfaces so put that into that file, some other
functions are needed from various places so put them into util, and also
rearranged the prototypes in ieee80211_i.h accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# b8695a8f 10-Feb-2009 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

mac80211: restructure HT code

Create two new files, agg-tx.c and agg-rx.c to make it clearer
which code is common (ht.c) and which is specific (agg-*.c).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# 665af4fc 19-Jan-2009 Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>

mac80211: add suspend/resume callbacks

This patch introduces suspend and resume callbacks to mac80211,
allowing mac80211 to quiesce its state (bringing down interfaces,
removing keys, etc) in preparation for suspend. cfg80211 will call
the suspend hook before the device suspend, and resume hook after
the device resume.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# 765cb46a 08-Jan-2009 Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>

mac80211: 802.11w - Add BIP (AES-128-CMAC)

Implement Broadcast/Multicast Integrity Protocol for management frame
protection. This patch adds the needed definitions for the new
information element (MMIE) and implementation for the new "encryption"
type (though, BIP is actually not encrypting data, it provides only
integrity protection). These routines will be used by a follow-on patch
that enables BIP for multicast/broadcast robust management frames.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# b1439236 08-Dec-2008 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

mac80211/cfg80211: check endianness in sparse runs

Make sure sparse checks endianness when run on mac80211/cfg80211.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# cccf129f 05-Oct-2008 Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>

mac80211: add the 'minstrel' rate control algorithm

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# 39192c0b 09-Sep-2008 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

mac80211: move spectrum management code out

Like the HT code, this doesn't depend on the STA-mode implementation
and can be handled entirely independently. There's only stub code
for now, but when it gets filled having it in its own file will be
beneficial.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# 44d414db 08-Sep-2008 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

mac80211: move some HT code out of mlme.c

Some of the HT code in mlme.c is misplaced:
* constants/definitions belong to the ieee80211.h header
* code being used in other modes as well shouldn't be there

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# 0a51b27e 08-Sep-2008 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

mac80211: start moving scan code from mlme

Here's a first patch to move some code from mlme.c to a
new file called scan.c. The end result will hopefully be
a more manageable mlme.c.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# 51cb6db0 15-Jul-2008 David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

mac80211: Reimplement WME using ->select_queue().

The only behavior change is that we do not drop packets under any
circumstances. If that is absolutely needed, we could easily add it
back.

With cleanups and help from Johannes Berg.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# e5f5e733 26-Jun-2008 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

build algorithms into the mac80211 module

The old infrastructure was:
- the default algorithm is built into mac80211
- other algorithms get into their own modules

The implementation of this complicated scheme was horrible
(just look at net/mac80211/Makefile), and anyone adding a new
algorithm would most likely not get it right at his first attempt.

This patch therefore builds all enabled algorithms into the mac80211
module.

The user interface for the rate control algorithms changes as follows:
- first the user can choose which algorithms to enable (currently only
MAC80211_RC_PID is available)
- if more than one algorithm is enabled (currently not possible since
only one algorithm is present) the user then chooses the default one

Note:
- MAC80211_RC_PID is always enables for CONFIG_EMBEDDED=n

Technical changes:
- all selected algorithms get into the mac80211 module
- net/mac80211/Makefile can now become much less complicated
- support for rc80211_pid_algo.c being modular is no longer required
- this includes unexporting mesh_plink_broken

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# e2530083 16-May-2008 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

mac80211: use multi-queue master netdevice

This patch updates mac80211 and drivers to be multi-queue aware and
use that instead of the internal queue mapping. Also does a number
of cleanups in various pieces of the code that fall out and reduces
internal mac80211 state size.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# 2c8dccc7 08-Apr-2008 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

mac80211: rename files

This patch renames all mac80211 files (except ieee80211_i.h) to get rid
of the useless ieee80211_ prefix.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# d9357136 04-Mar-2008 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

the scheduled rc80211-simple.c removal

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# 2f5ce793 23-Feb-2008 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

mac80211: enable mesh in Kconfig

Currently marked BROKEN because of endianness problems.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# 8318d78a 24-Jan-2008 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

cfg80211 API for channels/bitrates, mac80211 and driver conversion

This patch creates new cfg80211 wiphy API for channel and bitrate
registration and converts mac80211 and drivers to the new API. The
old mac80211 API is completely ripped out. All drivers (except ath5k)
are updated to the new API, in many cases I expect that optimisations
can be done.

Along with the regulatory code I've also ripped out the
IEEE80211_HW_DEFAULT_REG_DOMAIN_CONFIGURED flag, I believe it to be
unnecessary if the hardware simply gives us whatever channels it wants
to support and we then enable/disable them as required, which is pretty
much required for travelling.

Additionally, the patch adds proper "basic" rate handling for STA
mode interface, AP mode interface will have to have new API added
to allow userspace to set the basic rate set, currently it'll be
empty... However, the basic rate handling will need to be moved to
the BSS conf stuff.

I do expect there to be bugs in this, especially wrt. transmit
power handling where I'm basically clueless about how it should work.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# 4b475898 02-Jan-2008 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

mac80211: better rate control algorithm selection

This patch changes mac80211's Kconfig/Makefile to:
* select between the PID and the SIMPLE rate control
algorithm as default
* always allow tri-state for the rate control algorithms,
building those that are selected 'y' into the mac80211
module (if that is a module, otherwise all into the kernel)
* force the default rate control algorithm to be built into
mac80211

It also makes both rate control algorithms proper modules again
with MODULE_LICENSE etc.

Only if EMBEDDED is the user allowed to select "NONE" as default
which will cause no algorithm to be selected, this will work
only when the driver brings one itself (e.g. iwlwifi drivers).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 12446c67 18-Dec-2007 Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>

rc80211-pid: add debugging

This adds a new debugfs file from which rate control relevant events can be
read one event per line. The output includes the current time, so graphs can be
created showing the rate control parameters. This helps in evaluating and
tuning rate control parameters. While at it, we split headers and code for
better readability.

Signed-off-by: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# c21b39ac 18-Dec-2007 Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>

mac80211: make PID rate control algorithm the default

This makes the new PID TX rate control algorithm the default instead of the
rc80211_simple rate control algorithm. The simple algorithm was flawed in
several ways: it wasn't responsive at all and didn't age the information it was
relying on properly. The PID algorithm allows us to tune characteristics such
as responsiveness by adjusting parameters and was found to generally behave
better.

The default algorithm can be overridden to select simple instead. Which
ever algorithm is the default is included as part of the mac80211
module automatically. The other algorithm (simple vs. pid) can
be selected for inclusion as well. If EMBEDDED is selected then
the choice is available to have no default specified and neither
algorithm included in mac80211. The default algorithm can be set
through a modparam.

While at it, mark rc80211-simple as deprecated, and schedule it
for removal.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# ad018375 18-Dec-2007 Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>

mac80211: add PID controller based rate control algorithm

Add a new rate control algorithm based on a PID controller. It samples the
percentage of failed frames over time, feeds the result into the controller and
uses its output to control the TX rate.

Signed-off-by: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# ac71c691 28-Oct-2007 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

mac80211: make simple rate control algorithm built-in

Too frequently people do not have module autoloading enabled
or fail to install the rate control module correctly, hence
their hardware probing fails due to no rate control algorithm
being available. This makes the 'simple' algorithm built into
the mac80211 module unless EMBEDDED is enabled in which case
it can be disabled (eg. if the wanted driver requires another
rate control algorithm.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# fa5fea71 18-Sep-2007 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

[MAC80211]: rename ieee80211_cfg.c to cfg.c

It's just painful to have the extra ieee80211_ prefix.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# eb063c17 28-Aug-2007 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

[MAC80211]: refactor event sending

Create a new file event.c that will contain code to send mac/mlme
events to userspace. For now put the Michael MIC failure condition
into it and remove sending of that condition via the management
interface, hostapd interestingly doesn't do anything when it gets
such a packet besides printing a message, it reacts only on the
private iwevent.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# c2d1560a 27-Jul-2007 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

[MAC80211]: introduce util.c

Introduce a new file util.c and move a whole bunch of functions into it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# 1f5a7e47 27-Jul-2007 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

[MAC80211]: split out some key functions from ieee80211.c

into a new file key.c which doesn't have much code right now but
it makes ieee80211.c easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# e2ebc74d 27-Jul-2007 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

[MAC80211]: split TX path into own file

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# 6e0d114d 27-Jul-2007 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

[MAC80211]: move QoS rx handlers into rx.c

This patch moves the QoS handlers into rx.c making it possible
to compile wme.c only when NET_SCHED is defined.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# 571ecf67 27-Jul-2007 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

[MAC80211]: split RX handlers into own file

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# fd8bacc9 09-Jun-2007 Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>

[PATCH] mac80211: regulatory domain cleanup

Currently, a function misnamed ieee80211_init_client() is used to handle
regulatory domain control. It is called from
ieee80211_register_hwmode(), which typically runs 2 or 3 times
(802.11a/b/g), but each time it iterates over all the modes.

This patch cleans this up and removes the confusion:
ieee80211_init_client was effectively renamed to
ieee80211_set_default_regdomain and is now run on a per-mode basis
(doesn't have to deal with netdevs). I also moved the regdomain handling
code into its own file and added some documentation.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>


# e9f207f0 05-May-2007 Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>

[MAC80211]: Add debugfs attributes.

Export various mac80211 internal variables through debugfs.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# f0706e82 05-May-2007 Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>

[MAC80211]: Add mac80211 wireless stack.

Add mac80211, the IEEE 802.11 software MAC layer.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>