1. 10 3月, 2010 1 次提交
  2. 02 2月, 2010 2 次提交
  3. 23 12月, 2009 3 次提交
  4. 22 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mac80211: reduce reliance on netdev · 47846c9b
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      For bluetooth 3, we will most likely not have
      a netdev for a virtual interface (sdata), so
      prepare for that by reducing the reliance on
      having a netdev. This patch moves the name
      and address fields into the sdata struct and
      uses them from there all over. Some work is
      needed to keep them sync'ed, but that's not
      a lot of work and in slow paths anyway.
      
      In doing so, this also reduces the number of
      pointer dereferences in many places, because
      of things like sdata->dev->dev_addr becoming
      sdata->vif.addr.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      47846c9b
  5. 20 11月, 2009 1 次提交
  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. 31 10月, 2009 2 次提交
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      mac80211: deprecate qual value · c27f2fde
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      This value is unused by mac80211, because it was only
      be used by wireless extensions, and turned out to not
      be useful there because the quality value needs to be
      comparable between scan results and the current value
      which is impossible when the qual value is calculated
      taking into account noise, for example.
      
      Since it is unused anyway, this patch deprecates it
      in the hope that drivers will remove their sometimes
      quite expensive calculations of the value.
      
      I'm open to actual uses of the value, but the best
      way of using it seems to be what the Intel drivers do
      which should probably be generalised if we have noise
      values from the hardware.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      c27f2fde
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      cfg80211/mac80211: use debugfs_remove_recursive · 7bcfaf2f
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      We can save a lot of code and pointers in the structs
      by using debugfs_remove_recursive().
      
      First, change cfg80211 to use debugfs_remove_recursive()
      so that drivers do not need to clean up any files they
      added to the per-wiphy debugfs (if and only if they are
      ok to be accessed until after wiphy_unregister!).
      
      Then also make mac80211 use debugfs_remove_recursive()
      where necessary -- it need not remove per-wiphy files
      as cfg80211 now removes those, but netdev etc. files
      still need to be handled but can now be removed without
      needing struct dentry pointers to all of them.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      7bcfaf2f
  8. 11 7月, 2009 1 次提交
  9. 30 1月, 2009 1 次提交
  10. 11 11月, 2008 1 次提交
  11. 01 11月, 2008 2 次提交
  12. 28 10月, 2008 1 次提交
  13. 15 10月, 2008 1 次提交
  14. 25 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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      mac80211: make master iface not wireless · 133b8226
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      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>
      133b8226
  15. 16 9月, 2008 1 次提交
  16. 23 8月, 2008 1 次提交
  17. 22 5月, 2008 1 次提交
  18. 15 5月, 2008 2 次提交
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      mac80211: use hardware flags for signal/noise units · 566bfe5a
      Bruno Randolf 提交于
      trying to clean up the signal/noise code. the previous code in mac80211 had
      confusing names for the related variables, did not have much definition of
      what units of signal and noise were provided and used implicit mechanisms from
      the wireless extensions.
      
      this patch introduces hardware capability flags to let the hardware specify
      clearly if it can provide signal and noise level values and which units it can
      provide. this also anticipates possible new units like RCPI in the future.
      
      for signal:
      
        IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC - unspecified, unknown, hw specific
        IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB     - dB difference to unspecified reference point
        IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM    - dBm, difference to 1mW
      
      for noise we currently only have dBm:
      
        IEEE80211_HW_NOISE_DBM     - dBm, difference to 1mW
      
      if IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC or IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB is used the driver has
      to provide the maximum value (max_signal) it reports in order for applications
      to make sense of the signal values.
      
      i tried my best to find out for each driver what it can provide and update it
      but i'm not sure (?) for some of them and used the more conservative guess in
      doubt. this can be fixed easily after this patch has been merged by changing
      the hardware flags of the driver.
      
      DRIVER          SIGNAL    MAX	NOISE   QUAL
      -----------------------------------------------------------------
      adm8211         unspec(?) 100   n/a     missing
      at76_usb        unspec(?) (?)   unused  missing
      ath5k           dBm             dBm     percent rssi
      b43legacy       dBm             dBm     percent jssi(?)
      b43             dBm             dBm     percent jssi(?)
      iwl-3945        dBm             dBm     percent snr+more
      iwl-4965        dBm             dBm     percent snr+more
      p54             unspec    127   n/a     missing
      rt2x00          dBm	        n/a     percent rssi+tx/rx frame success
        rt2400        dBm             n/a
        rt2500pci     dBm             n/a
        rt2500usb     dBm             n/a
        rt61pci       dBm             n/a
        rt73usb       dBm             n/a
      rtl8180         unspec(?) 65    n/a     (?)
      rtl8187         unspec(?) 65    (?)     noise(?)
      zd1211          dB(?)     100   n/a     percent
      
      drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c:      Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
      Signed-off-by: NBruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      566bfe5a
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      mac80211: proper STA info locking · 07346f81
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      As discussed earlier, we can unify locking in struct sta_info
      and use just a single spinlock protecting all members of the
      structure that need protection. Many don't, but one of the
      especially bad ones is the 'flags' member that can currently
      be clobbered when RX and TX is being processed on different
      CPUs at the same time.
      
      Because having four spinlocks for different, mostly exclusive
      parts of a single structure is overkill, this patch also kills
      the ampdu and mesh plink spinlocks and uses just a single one
      for everything. Because none of the spinlocks are nested, this
      is safe.
      
      It remains to be seen whether or not we should make the sta
      flags use atomic bit operations instead, for now though this
      is a safe thing and using atomic operations instead will be
      very simple using the new static inline functions this patch
      introduces for accessing sta->flags.
      
      Since spin_lock_bh() is used with this lock, there shouldn't
      be any contention even if aggregation is enabled at around the
      same time as both requires frame transmission/reception which
      is in a bh context.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
      Cc: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      07346f81
  19. 08 5月, 2008 1 次提交
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      mac80211: QoS related cleanups · e100bb64
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      This
       * makes the queue number passed to drivers a u16
         (as it will be with skb_get_queue_mapping)
       * removes the useless queue number defines
       * splits hw->queues into hw->queues/ampdu_queues
       * removes the debugfs files for per-queue counters
       * removes some dead QoS code
       * removes the beacon queue configuration for IBSS
         so that the drivers now never get a queue number
         bigger than (hw->queues + hw->ampdu_queues - 1)
         for tx and only in the range 0..hw->queues-1 for
         conf_tx.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      e100bb64
  20. 09 4月, 2008 1 次提交
  21. 28 3月, 2008 2 次提交
  22. 07 3月, 2008 2 次提交
  23. 01 3月, 2008 6 次提交
  24. 11 10月, 2007 3 次提交
  25. 07 8月, 2007 1 次提交