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Andriy Tkachuk
d0833a6a2d lib80211: Cosmetics - make room for MIC/CRC near the actual calculation
Signed-off-by: Andriy V. Tkachuk <andrit@ukr.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-02 16:03:38 -05:00
Vasanthakumar
3c384053ce mac80211: Don't call rate control when HW handles it
Rate control should not be called to update the tx status
when HW does the RC.

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-01 15:40:09 -05:00
Felix Fietkau
b4d57adb72 mac80211: fix sta lookup with AP VLAN interfaces and injected frames
When injecting frames, mac80211 currently looks for the first AP
interface that matches the source address of the injected frame.
This breaks when such a frame is directed at a STA that has been moved
to a VLAN. This patch fixes it by using sta_info_get_bss instead of
sta_info_get, which also finds stations belonging to a VLAN interface
of the same BSS as the AP interface.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-01 15:40:08 -05:00
Felix Fietkau
17ad353b8d mac80211: fix monitor mode tx radiotap header handling
When an injected frame gets buffered for a powersave STA or filtered
and retransmitted, mac80211 attempts to parse the radiotap header
again, which doesn't work because it's gone at that point.
This patch adds a new flag for checking the availability of a radiotap
header, so that it only attempts to parse it once, reusing the tx info
on the next call to ieee80211_tx().
This fixes severe issues with rekeying in AP mode.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-01 15:40:08 -05:00
Felix Fietkau
4754ffd68b mac80211: fix sta lookup for received action frames on an AP VLAN
When looking for a matching interface, __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet
loops over all active interfaces, looking for matching stations.
Because AP VLAN interfaces are not processed as part of this loop, it
needs to use sta_info_get_bss instead of sta_info_get in order to find
a STA that has been moved to a VLAN.
This fixes issues with aggregation setup/teardown.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-01 15:40:08 -05:00
Pavel Roskin
e0b20f1c67 mac80211: reduce stack usage in sta_agg_status_read()
Use a more compact and readable format for "agg_status" to reduce the
stack frame to less than 1024 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-01 15:40:07 -05:00
Pavel Roskin
4c82bf8e56 mac80211: reduce stack usage in sta_ht_capa_read()
The maximal size of the "ht_capa" file is 430 bytes.  In most cases,
it's much shorter.  Use a 512 byte long buffer.  1024 bytes is too much
and causes a warning with CONFIG_FRAME_WARN=1024.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-01 15:40:07 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
09d989d179 cfg80211: add regulatory hint disconnect support
This adds a new regulatory hint to be used when we know all
devices have been disconnected and idle. This can happen
when we suspend, for instance. When we disconnect we can
no longer assume the same regulatory rules learned from
a country IE or beacon hints are applicable so restore
regulatory settings to an initial state.

Since driver hints are cached on the wiphy that called
the hint, those hints are not reproduced onto cfg80211
as the wiphy will respect its own wiphy->regd regardless.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-01 15:40:06 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
a2bff2694b cfg80211: avoid flushing the global workqueue for core reg hints
When cfg80211 starts it will send a core regulatory hint. This is
sent to the global workqueue but we force processing of it by
flushing the global workqueue. The flushing was done since
cfg80211 needs last_request to always be populated.

Avoid flushing the global workqueue by processing the work
required immediately instead of putting it into a linked
list and processing it after the flush.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-01 15:40:05 -05:00
John W. Linville
54233261d5 cfg80211: fix wext-compat for setting rate to 'auto'
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-27 15:02:09 -05:00
Johannes Berg
56007a028c mac80211: wait for beacon before enabling powersave
Because DTIM information is required for powersave
but is only conveyed in beacons, wait for a beacon
before enabling powersave, and change the way the
information is conveyed to the driver accordingly.

mwl8k doesn't currently seem to implement PS but
requires the DTIM period in a different way; after
talking to Lennert we agreed to just have mwl8k do
the parsing itself in the finalize_join work.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-26 11:53:21 -05:00
Johannes Berg
c21dbf9214 cfg80211: export cfg80211_find_ie
This new function (previously a static function
called just "find_ie" can be used to find a
specific IE in a buffer of IEs.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-26 11:53:20 -05:00
Johannes Berg
18c949070b mac80211: fill jiffies/vif on filtered frames
Filtered frames not only need their control information
cleared to avoid wrong checks, but also need to have
jiffies and vif assigned so they can be processed or
expired.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:40:49 -05:00
Johannes Berg
723bae7ee4 mac80211: track work started through callbacks
Currently, the remain_on_channel work callback needs
to track in its own data structure whether the work
was just started or not. By reordering some code this
becomes unnecessary, the generic wk->started variable
can still be 'false' on the first invocation and only
be 'true' on actual timeout invocations, so that the
extra variable can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:29 -05:00
Johannes Berg
382b16559d mac80211: fix sw crypto
What a stupid mistake. In

    commit 813d766940
    Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
    Date:   Sun Jan 17 01:47:58 2010 +0100

        mac80211: move control.hw_key assignment

I inserted code testing the wrong flags field,
which means that the test is almost always true
(it's really testing for the peer's WMM support)
and thus the later parts of the stack assume hw
crypto will be done even if that's not true.

Obviously, that broke software crypto. Maxim
said so specifically, and Jochen probably uses
some cipher that iwl3945 doesn't support in
hardware, which might also explain that Maxim
reports that even hw crypto is broken.

Fix this to test the right flags field.

Reported-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:29 -05:00
Felix Fietkau
1396b231b0 mac80211: fix WARN_ON in the new work code
ieee80211_work_rx_mgmt currently enqueues various management frames,
including deauth and disassoc frames, however the function
ieee80211_work_rx_queued_mgmt does not handle these, as they should
only occur if the AP is buggy. It does emit a WARN_ON when this happens
though, and several users have reported such instances.
Fix the WARN_ON by not queueing such frames in the first place.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:28 -05:00
Kalle Valo
eb807fb238 mac80211: fix update_tkip_key() documentation about the context
Johannes noticed that I had incorrectly documented the context of
update_tkip_key() driver operation. It must be atomic because all
RX code is run inside rcu critical section.

Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:28 -05:00
Kalle Valo
3b43a18743 mac80211: fix tx select key null pointer crash with hostapd
Pavel Roskin reported a crash in ieee80211_tx_h_select_key():

http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=126419655108528&w=2

This is a regression from patch "mac80211: move control.hw_key assignment".
Fix it as suggested by Johannes, adding an else statement to make sure
that tx->key is not accessed when it's null.

Compile-tested only.

Reported-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Tested-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-23 16:47:00 -05:00
Johannes Berg
f12553ebe0 mac80211: add missing key check
ieee80211_tx_h_select_key might decide that a frame
need not be encrypted at all, in which case it will
clear tx->key. In that case it may crash if a key
was previously selected, e.g. as the default key.

This is also due to my patch
"mac80211: move control.hw_key assignment".

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-22 16:33:28 -05:00
Felix Fietkau
4bb29f8c39 mac80211: fix rx data handling for non-data frames on multiple vifs
The loop that passes non-data frames to all relevant vifs inside the
__ieee80211_rx_handle_packet keeps a pointer to the previous sdata to
avoid having to make unnecessary copies of the frame it's handling.
This led to a bug that caused it to apply the ieee80211_rx_data state
to the wrong interface, thereby either missing the rx.sta pointer or
having it assigned where it shouldn't be.
This breaks (among other things) aggregation on some vifs, as action
frame exchages are dropped to the cooked monitor interface due to
rx->sta being NULL.
Fix this by restructuring the loop so that it prepares the rx data just
before making the skb copy and calling the rx handlers.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-22 16:11:33 -05:00
Andriy Tkachuk
d0dd2de0d0 mac80211: Account HT Control field in Data frame hdrlen according to 802.11n-2009
ieee80211_hdrlen() should account account new HT Control field in 802.11
data frame header introduced by IEEE 802.11n standard.

According to 802.11n-2009 HT Control field is present in data frames
when both of following are met:

   1. It is QoS data frame.
   2. Order bit is set in Frame Control field.

The change might be totally compatible with legacy non-11n aware frames,
because 802.11-2007 standard states that "all QoS STAs set this subfield
to 0".

Signed-off-by: Andriy V. Tkachuk <andrit@ukr.net>
Acked-by : Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-22 16:11:27 -05:00
Johannes Berg
ef15aac607 cfg80211: export multiple MAC addresses in sysfs
If a device has multiple MAC addresses, userspace will
need to know about that. Similarly, if it allows the
MAC addresses to vary by a bitmask.

If a driver exports multiple addresses, it is assumed
that it will be able to deal with that many different
addresses, which need not necessarily match the ones
programmed into the device; if a mask is set then the
device should deal addresses within that mask based
on an arbitrary "base address".

To test it all and show how it is used, add support
to hwsim even though it can't actually deal with
addresses different from the default.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-22 16:11:16 -05:00
Johannes Berg
b3fbdcf49f mac80211: pass vif and station to update_tkip_key
When a TKIP key is updated, we should pass the station
pointer instead of just the address, since drivers can
use that to store their own data. We also need to pass
the virtual interface pointer.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-22 16:08:55 -05:00
John W. Linville
e4fca007b0 mac80211: avoid NULL ptr deref when using WEP
"mac80211: move control.hw_key assignment" changed an if-else into two
separate if statments, but the if-else is needed to prevent
dereferencing a null info->control.hw_key.  This fixes avoids a lock-up
during association on my machine when using WEP.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-22 12:39:14 -05:00
Jouni Malinen
27e310c91c nl80211: Allow association to change channels during reassociation
nl80211_associate() was rejecting (re)association attempts with EBUSY
in some cases where we are currently associated with an AP that uses
different channel from the destination AP. Fix this by passing the
current wdev to rdev_fixed_channel() in the same way that was already
done for join-IBSS and connect commands. This allows the fixedchan
check to skipped for the current wdev and allows the reassociation to
proceed.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:49:35 -05:00
Benoit Papillault
a98bfec298 mac80211: Fixed a bug in IBSS merge
First, both beacons and probe responses can be used for IBSS merge.
Next, sdata->u.ibss.bssid was always true (and thus IBSS merge was
disabled). We should use sdata->u.ibss.fixed_bssid instead.

Signed-off-by: Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:43:10 -05:00
Benoit Papillault
ce9058aedd mac80211: removed useless code in IBSS management
ieee82011_sta_find_ibss() and ieee80211_sta_merge_ibss() are always
called with a defined state. So it's useless to check it or set it in
those function.

Signed-off-by: Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:43:10 -05:00
Johannes Berg
5f2aa25e0e cfg80211: rcu-ify rdev and wdev
Future code will need to look up rdev and wdev
within atomic sections, but currently we need
to lock a mutex for such lookups. Change the
list handling for both to be RCU-safe so that
we can look them up in rcu sections instead in
the future.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:43:09 -05:00
Johannes Berg
c6fcf6bcfc mac80211: re-enable re-transmission of filtered frames
In an earlier commit,

    mac80211: disable software retry for now

    Pavel Roskin reported a problem that seems to be due to
    software retry of already transmitted frames. It turns
    out that we've never done that correctly, but due to
    some recent changes it now crashes in the TX code. I've
    added a comment in the patch that explains the problem
    better and also points to possible solutions -- which
    I can't implement right now.

I disabled software retry of failed/filtered frames
because it was broken. With the work of the previous
patches, it now becomes fairly easy to re-enable it
by adding a flag indicating that the frame shouldn't
be modified, but still running it through the transmit
handlers to populate the control information.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:25:21 -05:00
Johannes Berg
813d766940 mac80211: move control.hw_key assignment
When mac80211 asks a driver to encrypt a frame, it
must assign the control.hw_key pointer for it to
know which key to use etc. Currently, mac80211 does
this whenever it would software-encrypt a frame.

Change the logic of this code to assign the hw_key
pointer when selecting the key, and later check it
when deciding whether to encrypt the frame or let
it be encrypted by the hardware. This allows us to
later simply skip the encryption function since it
no longer modifies the TX control.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:25:19 -05:00
Johannes Berg
a6bae9e7ab mac80211: remove useless setting of IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_DONT_ENCRYPT
There's no value in setting a flag that will
never be checked after this point, this seems
to be legacy code -- I think previously the
flag was used to check whether to encrypt the
frame or not. Now, however, the flag need not
be set, and setting it actually interferes if
the frame will be processed again later.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:25:17 -05:00
Johannes Berg
697e6a0fb0 mac80211: clear TX control on filtered frames
When an skb survived a round-trip through the driver
and needs to be re-used, its control information is
definitely not valid any more, the driver will have
overwritten it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:25:16 -05:00
Johannes Berg
edc6ccb7b9 mac80211: move and rename misc tx handler
This TX handler is used only for assigning the
station pointer in the control information, so
give it a better name. Also move it before rate
control.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:25:16 -05:00
Bob Copeland
8e9310c179 mac80211: pid: replace open-coded msecs_to_jiffies
Code directly scaling by HZ and rounding can be more efficiently
and clearly performed with msecs_to_jiffies.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:25:15 -05:00
Felix Fietkau
861a57cd01 mac80211: fix WMM AC default for non-QoS data frames
The WMM AC selection added to the monitor mode selection function
accidentally assigns non-QoS data frames to the same AC as mgmt frames
(VO). This is not serious, but should be fixed anyway. This patch
assigns them to the BE AC instead.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:25:07 -05:00
John W. Linville
031cf0e94c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2010-01-19 15:58:41 -05:00
Bob Copeland
e850f68b8f mac80211: fix sign error in pid controller
While testing the pid rate controller in mac80211_hwsim, I noticed
that once the controller reached 54 Mbit rates, it would fail to
lower the rate when necessary.  The debug log shows:

1945 186786 pf_sample 50 3534 3577 50

My interpretation is that the fixed point scaling of the target
error value (pf) is incorrect: the error value of 50 compared to
a target of 14 case should result in a scaling value of
(14-50) = -36 * 256 or -9216, but instead it is (14 * 256)-50, or
3534.

Correct this by doing fixed point scaling after subtraction.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Acked-by: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-18 15:07:02 -05:00
Ming Lei
145b6d1a56 mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_send_probe_req
This patch fixes memory leak in ieee80211_send_probe_req, which
is introduced in 7c12ce8b854df346388ea56d684784e3484012cf:

	mac80211: use Probe Request template when sending a direct scan

The patch is against the latest wireless-test tree.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-15 17:02:08 -05:00
Felix Fietkau
43d3534344 mac80211: force use_short_slot=true for 5GHz
Normally 5GHz does not have a concept of long vs short slot time,
however the slot time that it ends up using is the same as for 2.4 GHZ
and use_short_slot == true
Because of that, it makes more sense to force use_short_slot = true
whenever 5 GHz is being used, so that this particular check does not
have to be in every single driver that uses this flag.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-15 17:02:07 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
84920e3e47 cfg80211: make regulatory_hint_11d() band specific
In practice APs do not send country IE channel triplets for channels
the AP is not operating on and if they were to do so they would have
to use the regulatory extension which we currently do not process.
No AP has been seen in practice that does this though so just drop
those country IEs.

Additionally it has been noted the first series of country IE
channels triplets are specific to the band the AP sends. Propagate
the band on which the country IE was found on reject the country
IE then if the triplets are ever oustide of the band.

Although we now won't process country IE information with multiple
band information we leave the intersection work as is as it is
technically possible for someone to want to eventually process these
type of country IEs with regulatory extensions.

Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-15 17:02:06 -05:00
Benoit Papillault
93895757df mac80211: Fixed netif_tx_wake_all_queues in IBSS mode
When ieee80211_offchannel_return is called, it needs to re-enabled TX
queues that have been stopped in ieee80211_offchannel_stop_beaconing or
ieee80211_offchannel_stop_station. It happens if we are doing a scan with an
IBSS interface. In this case, the interface stopped transmitting.

Signed-off-by: Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-15 16:58:28 -05:00
Benoit Papillault
e5de30c9bf mac80211: check that ieee80211_set_power_mgmt only handles STA interfaces.
ieee80211_set_power_mgmt is meant for STA interfaces only. Moreover,
since sdata->u.mgd.mtx is only initialized for STA interfaces, using
this code for any other type of interface (like creating a monitor
interface) will result in a oops.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-15 16:20:22 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
a0f2e0fca1 cfg80211: Ingore country IEs with a zero set of number of channels
Previous to this and the last patch, titled,

"cfg80211: Fix 2 GHz subband calculation for country IEs"

we would end up treating these IEs as single channel units. These are in
fact just bogus IE triplets so ignore the entire IE if these are found.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-14 18:16:56 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
e99c7cd57b cfg80211: fix 2 GHz subband calculation for country IEs
Country IEs triplets are getting an extra channel with
the current count. This does not affect regulatory because
we always took the intersection between what the AP gave
and what CRDA believed is correct.

This however does fix processing some Country IEs with multiple
sequential 2 GHz triplets. Since our parser and the spec mandates
all channels be monitonically increasing we would drop the IE after
noticing the second triplet begins on a channel already processed.
APs that send these type of country IEs seems rare though.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-14 18:16:53 -05:00
Abhijeet Kolekar
5f6120335c cfg80211: fix channel setting for wext
Patch fixes the bug at
http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2139

Currently we cannot set the channel using wext extension
if we have already associated and disconnected. As
cfg80211_mgd_wext_siwfreq will not switch the channel if ssid is set.
This fixes it by clearing the ssid.
Following is the sequence which it tries to fix.
modprobe iwlagn
iwconfig wlan0 essid ""
ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 chan X

wext is marked as deprecate.If we use nl80211 we can easily play with
setting the channel.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-14 17:14:58 -05:00
Kalle Valo
0c74211d19 mac80211: check uapsd state for dynamic power save
To make U-APSD client mode effective, we must not wake up from dynamic power
save when transmitting frames. So if dynamic power save is enabled, it needs
check the queue the transmitted packet is in and decide if we need to wake
up or not.

In a perfect world, where all packets would have correct QoS tags, U-APSD
enabled queues should not trigger wakeup from power save. But in the real
world, where very few packets have correct QoS tags, this won't work. For
example, if only voip class has U-APSD enabled and we send a packet in voip
class, but the packets we receive are in best effort class, we would receive
the packets with the legacy power save method. And that would increase
latencies too much from a voip application point of view.

The workaround is to enable U-APSD for all qeueus and still use dynamic ps
wakeup for all other queues except voip. That way we can still save power
with a voip application and not sacrifice latency. Normal traffic (in
background, best effort or video class) would still trigger wakeup from
dynamic power save.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:02 -05:00
Kalle Valo
5c1b98a52c mac80211: create tx handler for dynamic ps
Currently dynamic ps check is in ieee80211_xmit(), but it's cleaner
to have a separate tx handler for this. Also this is a prerequisite for
U-APSD client mode which needs to know the queue frame is in.

Also need_dynamic_ps() function is embedded to the tx handler.

No functional changes expect that the code is run in a later phase than
originally.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:01 -05:00
Kalle Valo
50ae0cf15c mac80211: add debugfs interface for U-APSD queue configuration
Because it's not yet decided how to configure which queues are U-APSD
enabled, add a debugfs interface for testing purposes.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:21:00 -05:00
Kalle Valo
ab13315af9 mac80211: add U-APSD client support
Add Unscheduled Automatic Power-Save Delivery (U-APSD) client support. The
idea is that the data frames from the client trigger AP to send the buffered
frames with ACs which have U-APSD enabled. This decreases latency and makes it
possible to save even more power.

Driver needs to use IEEE80211_HW_UAPSD to enable the feature. The current
implementation assumes that firmware takes care of the wakeup and
hardware needing IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK is not yet supported.

Tested with wl1251 on a Nokia N900 and Cisco Aironet 1231G AP and running
various test traffic with ping.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:20:58 -05:00
Johannes Berg
2d46d7c121 mac80211: remove unused type argument
The type argument to DEBUGFS_ADD() isn't used
and can be removed, it's around from before
the conversion to debugfs_remove_recursive().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:20:57 -05:00