1. 29 12月, 2009 4 次提交
  2. 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
  3. 08 12月, 2009 1 次提交
  4. 03 11月, 2009 2 次提交
  5. 31 10月, 2009 2 次提交
  6. 28 10月, 2009 1 次提交
  7. 23 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mac80211: fix DTIM setting · 6a211bf1
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      When the DTIM setting is read from beacons, mac80211 will
      assume it is 1 if the TIM IE is not present or the value
      is 0. This sounds fine, but the same function processes
      probe responses as well, which don't have a TIM IE. This
      leads to overwriting any values previously parsed out of
      beacon frames.
      
      Thus, instead of checking for the presence of the TIM IE
      when setting the default, simply check whether the DTIM
      period value is valid already. If the TIM IE is not there
      then the value cannot be valid (it is initialised to 0)
      and probe responses received after beacons will not lead
      to overwriting an already valid value.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      6a211bf1
  8. 29 8月, 2009 1 次提交
  9. 20 8月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mac80211: allow configure_filter callback to sleep · 3ac64bee
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      Over time, a whole bunch of drivers have come up
      with their own scheme to delay the configure_filter
      operation to a workqueue. To be able to simplify
      things, allow configure_filter to sleep, and add
      a new prepare_multicast callback that drivers that
      need the multicast address list implement. This new
      callback must be atomic, but most drivers either
      don't care or just calculate a hash which can be
      done atomically and then uploaded to the hardware
      non-atomically.
      
      A cursory look suggests that at76c50x-usb, ar9170,
      mwl8k (which is actually very broken now), rt2x00,
      wl1251, wl1271 and zd1211 should make use of this
      new capability.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      3ac64bee
  10. 14 8月, 2009 1 次提交
  11. 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
  12. 30 7月, 2009 2 次提交
  13. 28 7月, 2009 6 次提交
  14. 25 7月, 2009 1 次提交
  15. 11 7月, 2009 3 次提交
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      mac80211: rework MLME for multiple authentications · 77fdaa12
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      Sit tight. This shakes up the world as you know
      it. Let go of your spaghetti tongs, they will no
      longer be required, the horrible statemachine in
      net/mac80211/mlme.c is no more...
      
      With the cfg80211 SME mac80211 now has much less
      to keep track of, but, on the other hand, for FT
      it needs to be able to keep track of at least one
      authentication being in progress while associated.
      So convert from a single state machine to having
      small ones for all the different things we need to
      do. For real FT it will still need work wrt. PS,
      but this should be a good step.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      77fdaa12
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      mac80211: shorten the passive dwell time for sw scans · 96f7e739
      Helmut Schaa 提交于
      mac80211's software scan implementation uses a passive dwell time of
      (HZ / 5) which means we stay 200ms on each passive channel. Compared
      to iwlwifi's hw scan and the old ipw* drivers which use values around
      120ms this is quite long.
      
      Reducing the passive dwell time from 200ms to 125ms should save us
      something around a second on cards capable of 11a and we should still be
      able to catch beacons from most access points (assuming a ~100ms beacon
      interval).
      Signed-off-by: NHelmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      96f7e739
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      mac80211: push rx status into skb->cb · f1d58c25
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      Within mac80211, we often need to copy the rx status into
      skb->cb. This is wasteful, as drivers could be building it
      in there to start with. This patch changes the API so that
      drivers are expected to pass the RX status in skb->cb, now
      accessible as IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb). It also updates all
      drivers to pass the rx status in there, but only by making
      them memcpy() it into place before the call to the receive
      function (ieee80211_rx(_irqsafe)). Each driver can now be
      optimised on its own schedule.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      f1d58c25
  16. 21 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mac80211: cancel/restart all timers across suspend/resume · 5bb644a0
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      We forgot to cancel all timers in mac80211 when suspending.
      In particular we forgot to deal with some things that can
      cause hardware reconfiguration -- while it is down.
      
      While at it we go ahead and add a warning in ieee80211_sta_work()
      if its run while the suspend->resume cycle is in effect. This
      should not happen and if it does it would indicate there is
      a bug lurking in either mac80211 or mac80211 drivers.
      
      With this now wpa_supplicant doesn't blink when I go to suspend
      and resume where as before there where issues with some timers
      running during the suspend->resume cycle. This caused a lot of
      incorrect assumptions and would at times bring back the device
      in an incoherent, but mostly recoverable, state.
      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>
      5bb644a0
  17. 12 5月, 2009 2 次提交
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      mac80211: improve scan timing · 99c84cb0
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      The call to ieee80211_hw_config() is supposed to apply changes
      synchronously, so once it returns the parameters are applied to
      the hardware. Thus, there really is no need to delay the probing
      by the channel switch time again since the channel switch has
      already happened once we get to this code.
      
      Additionally, there is no need to wait for a NAV update (probe
      delay) when the channel is passively scanned. Remove that extra
      time too.
      
      This cuts scanning time from over 7 seconds to under 4 on ar9170,
      which is due to the number of channels scanned and ar9170's switch
      time being advertised as 135ms (my test now indicates it is about
      77ms with the current driver, but the difference might also be due
      to using a different machine with different USB controllers).
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      99c84cb0
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      mac80211: fix scan channel race · 58905ca5
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      When a software scan starts, it first sets sw_scanning, but
      leaves the scan_channel "unset" (it currently actually gets
      initialised to a default). Now, when something else tries
      to (re)configure the hardware in the window between these two
      events (after sw_scanning = true, but before scan_channel is
      set), the current code switches to the (unset!) scan_channel.
      This causes trouble, especially when switching bands and
      sending frames on the wrong channel.
      
      To work around this, leave scan_channel initialised to NULL
      and use it to determine whether or not a switch to a different
      channel should occur (and also use the same condition to check
      whether to adjust power for scan or not).
      
      Additionally, avoid reconfiguring the hardware completely when
      recalculating idle resulted in no changes, this was the problem
      that originally led us to discover the race condition in the
      first place, which was helpfully bisected by Pavel. This part
      of the patch should not be necessary with the other fixes, but
      not calling the ieee80211_hw_config function when we know it to
      be unnecessary is certainly a correct thing to do.
      
      Unfortunately, this patch cannot and does not fix the race
      condition completely, but due to the way the scan code is
      structured it makes the particular problem Pavel discovered
      (race while changing channel at the same time as transmitting
      frames) go away. To fix it completely, more work especially
      with locking configuration is needed.
      Bisected-by: NPavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      58905ca5
  18. 07 5月, 2009 4 次提交
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      mac80211: tell driver when idle · 5cff20e6
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      When we aren't doing anything in mac80211, we can turn off
      much of the hardware, depending on the driver/hw. Not doing
      anything, aka being idle, means:
      
       * no monitor interfaces
       * no AP/mesh/wds interfaces
       * any station interfaces are in DISABLED state
       * any IBSS interfaces aren't trying to be in a network
       * we aren't trying to scan
      
      By creating a new function that verifies these conditions and calling
      it at strategic points where the states of those conditions change,
      we can easily make mac80211 tell the driver when we are idle to save
      power.
      
      Additionally, this fixes a small quirk where a recalculated powersave
      state is passed to the driver even if the hardware is about to stopped
      completely.
      
      This patch intentionally doesn't touch radio_enabled because that is
      currently implemented to be a soft rfkill which is inappropriate here
      when we need to be able to wake up with low latency.
      
      One thing I'm not entirely sure about is this:
      
        phy0: device no longer idle - in use
        wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:11:24:91:07:4d try 1
        wlan0 direct probe responded
        wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:11:24:91:07:4d
        wlan0: authenticated
      > phy0: device now idle
      > phy0: device no longer idle - in use
        wlan0: associate with AP 00:11:24:91:07:4d
        wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:11:24:91:07:4d (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=1)
        wlan0: associated
      
      Is it appropriate to go into idle state for a short time when we have
      just authenticated, but not associated yet? This happens only with the
      userspace SME, because we cannot really know how long it will wait
      before asking us to associate. Would going idle after a short timeout
      be more appropriate? We may need to revisit this, depending on what
      happens.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      5cff20e6
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      mac80211: add driver ops wrappers · 24487981
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      In order to later add tracing or verifications to the driver
      calls mac80211 makes, this patch adds static inline wrappers
      for all operations.
      
      All calls are now written as
      
      	drv_<op>(local, ...);
      
      instead of
      
      	local->ops-><op>(&local->hw, ...);
      
      Where necessary, the wrappers also do existence checking and
      return default values as appropriate.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      24487981
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      mac80211: unify config_interface and bss_info_changed · 2d0ddec5
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      The config_interface method is a little strange, it contains the
      BSSID and beacon updates, while bss_info_changed contains most
      other BSS information for each interface. This patch removes
      config_interface and rolls all the information it previously
      passed to drivers into bss_info_changed.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      2d0ddec5
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      mac80211: fix scan races and rework scanning · f3b85252
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      There are some places marked
      	/* XXX maybe racy? */
      and they really are racy because there's no locking.
      
      This patch reworks much of the scan code, and introduces proper
      locking for the scan request as well as the internal scanning
      (which is necessary for IBSS/managed modes). Helper functions
      are added to call the scanning code whenever necessary. The
      scan deferring is changed to simply queue the scanning work
      instead of trying to start the scan in place, the scanning work
      will then take care of the rest.
      
      Also, currently when internal scans are requested for an interface
      that is trying to associate, we reject such scans. This was not
      intended, the mlme code has provisions to scan twice when it can't
      find the BSS to associate with right away; this has never worked
      properly. Fix this by not rejecting internal scan requests for an
      interface that is associating.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      f3b85252
  19. 23 4月, 2009 3 次提交
  20. 28 3月, 2009 2 次提交