This patch removes unnecessary parameter in ieee80211_beacon_add_tim() and
removes unneeded definition and assignment for bdev (instance of net_device) in
ieee80211_beacon_get() and in ieee80211_get_buffered_bc()
(all in tx.c).
Signed-off-by: NRami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

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

Wireless HW without any dedicated queues for aggregation
do not need the ampdu_queues mechanism present right now
in mac80211. Since mac80211 is still incomplete wrt TX MQ
changes, do not allow aggregation sessions for drivers that
set ampdu_queues.

This is only an interim hack until Intel fixes the requeue issue.
Signed-off-by: NSujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NLuis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

A warning would be printed for every packet that
is transmitted if the rate control information isn't
setup. Change this to WARN_ON_ONCE.
Signed-off-by: NSujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Acked-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

So after the previous changes we were still unhappy with how
convoluted the API is and decided to make things simpler for
everybody. This completely changes the rate control API, now
taking into account 802.11n with MCS rates and more control,
most drivers don't support that though.
Signed-off-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Move bss_conf into the vif struct so that drivers can
access it during ->tx without having to store it in
the private data or similar. No driver updates because
this is only for when they want to start using it.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Instead of having a separate callback, use the HW config callback
with a new flag to change retry limits.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

I've come to think that not providing sequence numbers for
the normal STA mode case was a mistake, at least two drivers
now had to implement code they wouldn't otherwise need, and
I believe at76_usb and adm8211 might be broken.

This patch makes mac80211 assign a sequence number to all
those frames that need one except beacons. That means that
if a driver only implements modes that do not do beaconing
it need not worry about the sequence number.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Never actually used.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Also remove a few stray DECLARE_MAC_BUF that were no longer
used at all.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch adjusts the rate control API to allow multi-rate retry
if supported by the driver. The ieee80211_hw struct specifies how
many alternate rate selections the driver supports.
Signed-off-by: NFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

 - This patch (against the linux-wireless-next git tree) removes a
redundant check in ieee80211_master_start_xmit (net/mac80211/tx.c)
and adjust indentation in this method accordingly.

 In this method, there is no need to call again the
ieee80211_is_data() method; this is checked immediately before, in the
"if" command (we will not enter this block unless ieee80211_is_data()
is true, so that the "and" (&&) condition in that "if" command will be
fullfilled ).
Signed-off-by: NRami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch removes doubly defined variables in ieee80211_master_start_xmit
Signed-off-by: NTomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Long awaited, hard work. This patch totally cleans up the rate control
API to remove the requirement to include internal headers outside of
net/mac80211/.

There's one internal use in the PID algorithm left for mesh networking,
we'll have to figure out a way to clean that one up and decide how to
do the peer link evaluation, possibly independent of the rate control
algorithm or via new API.

Additionally, ath9k is left using the cross-inclusion hack for now, we
will add new API where necessary to make this work properly, but right
now I'm not expert enough to do it. It's still off better than before.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Currently the mesh code doesn't support bridging mesh point interfaces
with wired ethernet or AP to construct an MPP or MAP. This patch adds
code to support the "6 address frame format packet" functionality to
mesh point interfaces. Now the mesh network can be used as backhaul
for end to end communication.
Signed-off-by: NLi YanBo <dreamfly281@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

There's no need to register the master netdev with cfg80211,
in fact, this is quite dangerous and lead to having to add
checks for the master interface all over the config handlers.
This patch removes the "ieee80211_ptr" from the master iface
in favour of having a small netdev_priv() associated with
the master interface that stores the ieee80211_local pointer.
Because of this, a lot of code in the configuration handlers
can go away. To make this patch easier to verify I have also
removed a number of wiphy_priv() calls in favour of getting
the sdata first and then the local pointer from that.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

You can just pull up a monitor interface to get much more
detailed information, or, when debugging a driver, insert
dump code into the driver (which usually you will have to
do anyway to dump the driver-specific information). Hence
this option is useless.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The beacon counters mac80211 keeps are only used for debugfs,
unfortunately, they are incorrect for many hardware designs,
namely any design that has a beacon template. Hence, remove the
counters so we don't create the impression they are usable.

This also allows removing the beacon MESH #ifdef again.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Currently, virtual interface pointers passed to drivers might be
from monitor interfaces and as such completely uninitialised
because we do not tell the driver about monitor interfaces when
those are created. Instead of passing them, we should therefore
indicate to the driver that there is no information; do that by
passing a NULL value and adjust drivers to cope with it.

As a result, some mac80211 API functions also need to cope with
a NULL vif pointer so drivers can still call them unconditionally.

Also, when injecting frames we really don't want to pass NULL all
the time, if we know we are the source address of a frame and have
a local interface for that address, we can to use that interface.
This also helps with processing the frame correctly for that
interface which will help the 802.11w implementation. It's not
entirely correct for VLANs or WDS interfaces because there the MAC
address isn't unique, but it's already a lot better than what we
do now.

Finally, when injecting without a matching local interface, don't
assign sequence numbers at all.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

We cannot pass a VLAN vif pointer to the driver since those are
entirely virtual and we never tell the driver.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The sta_info->txrate_idx member isn't used by all RC algorithms
in the way it was intended to be used, move it into those that
require it (only PID) and keep track in the core code of which
rate was last used for reporting to userspace and the mesh MLME.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch changes mac80211 to share some more data about
stations with drivers. Should help iwlwifi and ath9k when
 they get around to updating, and might also help with
implementing rate control algorithms without internals.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

There's really no reason for mac80211 to be using its
own interface type defines. Use the nl80211 types and
simplify the configuration code a bit: there's no need
to translate them any more now.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Drivers need to know the basic rateset to be able to configure
the ACK/CTS programming in hardware correctly.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Some comments refer to 80211.o or similar; also remove
a comment about implementing fragments better, we really
have better things to do.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Most of the scan functions are called ieee80211_sta_scan_*
or similar, make clean it up so they are all just called
ieee80211_scan_*.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch splits off mesh handling from the STA/IBSS.
Unfortunately it increases mesh code size a bit, but I
think it makes things clearer. The patch also reduces
per-interface run-time memory usage.

Also clean up a few places where ifdef is not required.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch replaces net_device arguments to mac80211 internal functions
with ieee80211_{local,sub_if_data} as appropriate.

It also does the same for many 802.11s mesh functions, and changes the
mesh path table to be indexed on sub_if_data rather than net_device.

If the mesh part needs to be a separate patch let me know, but since
mesh uses a lot of mac80211 functions which were being converted anyway,
the changes go hand-in-hand somewhat.

This patch probably does not convert all the functions which could be
converted, but it is a large chunk and followup patches will be
provided.
Signed-off-by: NJasper Bryant-Greene <jasper@amiton.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: NHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Remove the last users of the rx/tx_data->fc data members and use the
le16 frame_control from the header directly.
Signed-off-by: NHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: NHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Those functions that still use ieee80211_get_hdrlen are moved over
to use the little endian frame control.
Signed-off-by: NHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Now we deal with mesh forwarding before the 802.11->802.3 conversion, thus
eliminating a few unnecessary steps. The next hop lookup is called from
ieee80211_master_start_xmit() instead of subif_start_xmit(). Until the next hop
is found, RA in the frame will be all zeroes for frames originating from the
device. For forwarded frames, RA will contain the TA of the received frame,
which will be necessary to send a path error if a next hop is not found.
Signed-off-by: NLuis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>
Acked-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch make mac80211 transmit correctly fragmented packet after
queue was stopped
Signed-off-by: NTomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch fixes mac80211 to not use the skb->cb over the queue step
from virtual interfaces to the master. The patch also, for now,
disables aggregation because that would still require requeuing,
will fix that in a separate patch. There are two other places (software
requeue and powersaving stations) where requeue can happen, but that is
not currently used by any drivers/not possible to use respectively.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

In net/mac80211/tx.c, there are some #ifdef which checks
MAC80211_VERBOSE_PS_DEBUG
(which in fact is never set) instead of
CONFIG_MAC80211_VERBOSE_PS_DEBUG, as should be.

This patch replaces MAC80211_VERBOSE_PS_DEBUG with
CONFIG_MAC80211_VERBOSE_PS_DEBUG in these #ifdef commands in
net/mac80211/tx.c.
Signed-off-by: NRami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Use dev_kfree_skb_any(); instead of dev_kfree_skb();, since
ieee80211_beacon_get function might be called from atomic.
(It's in a fail path.)
Signed-off-by: NJiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch makes mac80211 assign proper sequence numbers to
QoS-data frames. It also removes the old sequence number code
because we noticed that only the driver or hardware can assign
sequence numbers to non-QoS-data and especially management
frames in a race-free manner because beacons aren't passed
through mac80211's TX path.

This patch also adds temporary code to the rt2x00 drivers to
not break them completely, that code will have to be reworked
for proper sequence numbers on beacons.

It also moves sequence number assignment down in the TX path
so no sequence numbers are assigned to frames that are dropped.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch changes mac80211's beacon configuration handling
to never pass skbs to the driver directly but rather always
require the driver to use ieee80211_beacon_get(). Additionally,
it introduces "change flags" on the config_interface() call
to enable drivers to figure out what is changing. Finally, it
removes the beacon_update() driver callback in favour of
having IBSS beacon delivered by ieee80211_beacon_get() as well.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Currently, almost every interface type has a 'bss' pointer
pointing to BSS information. This BSS information, however,
is for a _local_ BSS, not for the BSS we joined, so having
it on a STA mode interface makes little sense, but now they
have it pointing to the master device, which is an AP mode
virtual interface. However, except for some bitrate control
data, this pointer is only used in AP/VLAN modes (for power
saving stations.)

Overall, it is not necessary to even have the master netdev
be a valid virtual interface, and it doesn't have to be on
the list of interfaces either.

This patch changes the master netdev to be special, it now
 - no longer is on the list of virtual interfaces, which
   lets me remove a lot of tests for that
 - no longer has sub_if_data attached, since that isn't used

Additionally, this patch changes some vlan/ap mode handling
that is related to these 'bss' pointers described above (but
in the VLAN case they actually make sense because there they
point to the AP they belong to); it also adds some debugging
code to IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF to validate it is not called
on the master netdev any more.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>