1. 08 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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      cfg80211/mac80211: better channel handling · f444de05
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      Currently (all tested with hwsim) you can do stupid
      things like setting up an AP on a certain channel,
      then adding another virtual interface and making
      that associate on another channel -- this will make
      the beaconing to move channel but obviously without
      the necessary IEs data update.
      
      In order to improve this situation, first make the
      configuration APIs (cfg80211 and nl80211) aware of
      multi-channel operation -- we'll eventually need
      that in the future anyway. There's one userland API
      change and one API addition. The API change is that
      now SET_WIPHY must be called with virtual interface
      index rather than only wiphy index in order to take
      effect for that interface -- luckily all current
      users (hostapd) do that. For monitor interfaces, the
      old setting is preserved, but monitors are always
      slaved to other devices anyway so no guarantees.
      
      The second userland API change is the introduction
      of a per virtual interface SET_CHANNEL command, that
      hostapd should use going forward to make it easier
      to understand what's going on (it can automatically
      detect a kernel with this command).
      
      Other than mac80211, no existing cfg80211 drivers
      are affected by this change because they only allow
      a single virtual interface.
      
      mac80211, however, now needs to be aware that the
      channel settings are per interface now, and needs
      to disallow (for now) real multi-channel operation,
      which is another important part of this patch.
      
      One of the immediate benefits is that you can now
      start hostapd to operate on a hardware that already
      has a connection on another virtual interface, as
      long as you specify the same channel.
      
      Note that two things are left unhandled (this is an
      improvement -- not a complete fix):
      
       * different HT/no-HT modes
      
         currently you could start an HT AP and then
         connect to a non-HT network on the same channel
         which would configure the hardware for no HT;
         that can be fixed fairly easily
      
       * CSA
      
         An AP we're connected to on a virtual interface
         might indicate switching channels, and in that
         case we would follow it, regardless of how many
         other interfaces are operating; this requires
         more effort to fix but is pretty rare after all
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      f444de05
  2. 20 2月, 2010 1 次提交
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      nl80211: add power save commands · ffb9eb3d
      Kalle Valo 提交于
      The most needed command from nl80211, which Wireless Extensions had,
      is support for power save mode. Add a simple command to make it possible
      to enable and disable power save via nl80211.
      
      I was also planning about extending the interface, for example adding the
      timeout value, but after thinking more about this I decided not to do it.
      Basically there were three reasons:
      
      Firstly, the parameters for power save are very much hardware dependent.
      Trying to find a unified interface which would work with all hardware, and
      still make sense to users, will be very difficult.
      
      Secondly, IEEE 802.11 power save implementation in Linux is still in state
      of flux. We have a long way to still to go and there is no way to predict
      what kind of implementation we will have after few years. And because we
      need to support nl80211 interface a long time, practically forever, adding
      now parameters to nl80211 might create maintenance problems later on.
      
      Third issue are the users. Power save parameters are mostly used for
      debugging, so debugfs is better, more flexible, interface for this.
      For example, wpa_supplicant currently doesn't configure anything related
      to power save mode. It's better to strive that kernel can automatically
      optimise the power save parameters, like with help of pm qos network
      and other traffic parameters.
      
      Later on, when we have better understanding of power save, we can extend
      this command with more features, if there's a need for that.
      Signed-off-by: NKalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      ffb9eb3d
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      cfg80211/mac80211: Use more generic bitrate mask for rate control · 37eb0b16
      Jouni Malinen 提交于
      Extend struct cfg80211_bitrate_mask to actually use a bitfield mask
      instead of just a single fixed or maximum rate index. This change
      itself does not modify the behavior (except for debugfs files), but it
      prepares cfg80211 and mac80211 for a new nl80211 command for setting
      which rates can be used in TX rate control.
      
      Since frames are now going through the rate control algorithm
      unconditionally, the internal IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_RCALGO flag can now
      be removed. The RC implementations can use the rate_idx_mask value to
      optimize their behavior if only a single rate is enabled.
      
      The old max_rate_idx in struct ieee80211_tx_rate_control is maintained
      (but commented as deprecated) for backwards compatibility with existing
      RC implementations. Once these implementations have been updated to
      use the more generic rate_idx_mask, the max_rate_idx value can be
      removed.
      Signed-off-by: NJouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      37eb0b16
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      cfg80211: clean up properly on interface type change · 3d54d255
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      When the interface type changes while connected, and the
      driver does not require the interface to be down for a
      type change, it is currently possible to get very strange
      results unless the driver takes special care, which it
      shouldn't have to.
      
      To fix this, take care to disconnect/leave IBSS when
      changing the interface type -- even if the driver may fail
      the call. Also process all events that may be pending to
      avoid running into a situation where an event is reported
      but only processed after the type has already changed,
      which would lead to missing events and warnings.
      
      A side effect of this is that you will have disconnected
      or left the IBSS even if the mode change ultimately fails,
      but since the intention was to change it and thus leave or
      disconnect, this is not a problem.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      3d54d255
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      cfg80211: allow wext to remove keys that don't exist · e3da574a
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      Some applications using wireless extensions expect to be able to
      remove a key that doesn't exist. One example is wpa_supplicant
      which doesn't actually change behaviour when running into an
      error while trying to do that, but it prints an error message
      which users interpret as wpa_supplicant having problems.
      
      The safe thing to do is not change the behaviour of wireless
      extensions any more, so when the driver reports -ENOENT let
      the wext bridge code return success to userspace. To guarantee
      this, also document that drivers should return -ENOENT when the
      key doesn't exist.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      e3da574a
  19. 14 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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      nl80211: Add RSC configuration for new keys · faa8fdc8
      Jouni Malinen 提交于
      When setting a key with NL80211_CMD_NEW_KEY, we should allow the key
      sequence number (RSC) to be set in order to allow replay protection to
      work correctly for group keys. This patch documents this use for
      nl80211 and adds the couple of missing pieces in nl80211/cfg80211 and
      mac80211 to support this. In addition, WEXT SIOCSIWENCODEEXT compat
      processing in cfg80211 is extended to handle the RSC (this was already
      specified in WEXT, but just not implemented in cfg80211/mac80211).
      Signed-off-by: NJouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      faa8fdc8