1. 30 11月, 2009 1 次提交
  2. 20 11月, 2009 2 次提交
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      mac80211: request TX status where needed · 7351c6bd
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      Right now all frames mac80211 hands to the driver
      have the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS flag set to
      request TX status. This isn't really necessary, only
      the injected frames need TX status (the latter for
      hostapd) so move setting this flag.
      
      The rate control algorithms also need TX status, but
      they don't require it.
      
      Also, rt2x00 uses that bit for its own purposes and
      seems to require it being set for all frames, but
      that can be fixed in rt2x00.
      
      This doesn't really change anything for any drivers
      but in the future drivers using hw-rate control may
      opt to not report TX status for frames that don't
      have the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS flag set.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> [rt2x00 bits]
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      7351c6bd
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      cfg80211: introduce capability for 4addr mode · 9bc383de
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      It's very likely that not many devices will support
      four-address mode in station or AP mode so introduce
      capability bits for both modes, set them in mac80211
      and check them when userspace tries to use the mode.
      Also, keep track of 4addr in cfg80211 (wireless_dev)
      and not in mac80211 any more. mac80211 can also be
      improved for the VLAN case by not looking at the
      4addr flag but maintaining the station pointer for
      it correctly. However, keep track of use_4addr for
      station mode in mac80211 to avoid all the derefs.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      9bc383de
  3. 19 11月, 2009 4 次提交
  4. 14 11月, 2009 1 次提交
  5. 12 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mac80211: implement support for 4-address frames for AP and client mode · f14543ee
      Felix Fietkau 提交于
      In some situations it might be useful to run a network with an
      Access Point and multiple clients, but with each client bridged
      to a network behind it. For this to work, both the client and the
      AP need to transmit 4-address frames, containing both source and
      destination MAC addresses.
      With this patch, you can configure a client to communicate using
      only 4-address frames for data traffic.
      On the AP side you can enable 4-address frames for individual
      clients by isolating them in separate AP VLANs which are configured
      in 4-address mode.
      Such an AP VLAN will be limited to one client only, and this client
      will be used as the destination for all traffic on its interface,
      regardless of the destination MAC address in the packet headers.
      The advantage of this mode compared to regular WDS mode is that it's
      easier to configure and does not require a static list of peer MAC
      addresses on any side.
      Signed-off-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      f14543ee
  6. 07 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mac80211: async station powersave handling · af818581
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      Some devices require that all frames to a station
      are flushed when that station goes into powersave
      mode before being able to send frames to that
      station again when it wakes up or polls -- all in
      order to avoid reordering and too many or too few
      frames being sent to the station when it polls.
      
      Normally, this is the case unless the station
      goes to sleep and wakes up very quickly again.
      But in that case, frames for it may be pending
      on the hardware queues, and thus races could
      happen in the case of multiple hardware queues
      used for QoS/WMM. Normally this isn't a problem,
      but with the iwlwifi mechanism we need to make
      sure the race doesn't happen.
      
      This makes mac80211 able to cope with the race
      with driver help by a new WLAN_STA_PS_DRIVER
      per-station flag that can be controlled by the
      driver and tells mac80211 whether it can transmit
      frames or not. This flag must be set according to
      very specific rules outlined in the documentation
      for the function that controls it.
      
      When we buffer new frames for the station, we
      normally set the TIM bit right away, but while
      the driver has blocked transmission to that sta
      we need to avoid that as well since we cannot
      respond to the station if it wakes up due to the
      TIM bit. Once the driver unblocks, we can set
      the TIM bit.
      
      Similarly, when the station just wakes up, we
      need to wait until all other frames are flushed
      before we can transmit frames to that station,
      so the same applies here, we need to wait for
      the driver to give the OK.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      af818581
  7. 03 11月, 2009 1 次提交
  8. 31 10月, 2009 4 次提交
  9. 28 10月, 2009 1 次提交
  10. 08 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mac80211: fix vlan and optimise RX · fbc44bf7
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      When receiving data frames, we can send them only to
      the interface they belong to based on transmitting
      station (this doesn't work for probe requests). Also,
      don't try to handle other frames for AP_VLAN at all
      since those interface should only receive data.
      
      Additionally, the transmit side must check that the
      station we're sending a frame to is actually on the
      interface we're transmitting on, and not transmit
      packets to functions that live on other interfaces,
      so validate that as well.
      
      Another bug fix is needed in sta_info.c where in the
      VLAN case when adding/removing stations we overwrite
      the sdata variable we still need.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      fbc44bf7
  11. 30 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mac80211: Fix [re]association power saving issue on AP side · 1f08e84f
      Igor Perminov 提交于
      Consider the following step-by step:
      1. A STA authenticates and associates with the AP and exchanges
      traffic.
      2. The STA reports to the AP that it is going to PS state.
      3. Some time later the STA device goes to the stand-by mode (not only
      its wi-fi card, but the device itself) and drops the association state
      without sending a disassociation frame.
      4. The STA device wakes up and begins authentication with an
      Auth frame as it hasn't been authenticated/associated previously.
      
      At the step 4 the AP "remembers" the STA and considers it is still in
      the PS state, so the AP buffers frames, which it has to send to the STA.
      But the STA isn't actually in the PS state and so it neither checks
      TIM bits nor reports to the AP that it isn't power saving.
      Because of that authentication/[re]association fails.
      
      To fix authentication/[re]association stage of this issue, Auth, Assoc
      Resp and Reassoc Resp frames are transmitted disregarding of STA's power
      saving state.
      
      N.B. This patch doesn't fix further data frame exchange after
      authentication/[re]association. A patch in hostapd is required to fix
      that.
      Signed-off-by: NIgor Perminov <igor.perminov@inbox.ru>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      1f08e84f
  12. 01 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  13. 14 8月, 2009 6 次提交
  14. 05 8月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mac80211: redefine usage of the mac80211 workqueue · 42935eca
      Luis R. Rodriguez 提交于
      The mac80211 workqueue exists to enable mac80211 and drivers
      to queue their own work on a single threaded workqueue. mac80211
      takes care to flush the workqueue during suspend but we never
      really had requirements on drivers for how they should use
      the workqueue in consideration for suspend.
      
      We extend mac80211 to document how the mac80211 workqueue should
      be used, how it should not be used and finally move raw access to
      the workqueue to mac80211 only. Drivers and mac80211 use helpers
      to queue work onto the mac80211 workqueue:
      
        * ieee80211_queue_work()
        * ieee80211_queue_delayed_work()
      
      These helpers will now warn if mac80211 already completed its
      suspend cycle and someone is trying to queue work. mac80211
      flushes the mac80211 workqueue prior to suspend a few times,
      but we haven't taken the care to ensure drivers won't add more
      work after suspend. To help with this we add a warning when
      someone tries to add work and mac80211 already completed the
      suspend cycle.
      
      Drivers should ensure they cancel any work or delayed work
      in the mac80211 stop() callback.
      Signed-off-by: NLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      42935eca
  15. 30 7月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mac80211: verify info->control.vif is not NULL · a7bc376c
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      When enqueuing packets on the internal packet queue, we
      need to ensure that we have a valid vif pointer since
      that is required since the net namespace work. Add some
      assertions to verify this, but also don't crash is for
      some reason we don't end up with a vif pointer -- warn
      and drop the packet in all these cases.
      
      Since this code touches a number of hotpaths, it is
      intended to be temporary, or maybe configurable in the
      future, at least the bit that is in the path that gets
      hit for every packet, ieee80211_tx_pending().
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      a7bc376c
  16. 28 7月, 2009 5 次提交
  17. 25 7月, 2009 4 次提交
  18. 22 7月, 2009 1 次提交
  19. 06 7月, 2009 1 次提交
  20. 13 6月, 2009 1 次提交
  21. 11 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mac80211: disable moving between PS modes during scan · 43f78531
      Luis R. Rodriguez 提交于
      We don't want to trigger moving between PS mode during scan,
      because then we will sometimes end up sending nullfunc frames
      during scan. We're supposed to only send one prior to scan
      and after scan.
      
      This fixes an oops which occured due to an assert in ath9k:
      
      http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=124277331319024
      
      The assert was happening because the rate control algorithm
      figures it should find at least one valid dual stream or
      single stream rate. Since we allow mac80211 to send nullfunc
      frames during scan and dynamic PS was enabled at times we ended
      up trying to send nullfunc frames for the target sta on the
      wrong band for which we have no valid rate to communicate with
      it. This breaks the assumptions in rate control.
      
      We determine we also need to disable moving between PS modes
      when not associated so lets just add that now as well, and we
      should not have a ps_sdata when that interface cannot actually
      go into PS because it's not associated.
      Signed-off-by: NLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      43f78531