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<title>nl80211: support beacon report scanning</title>
<updated>2016-07-06T12:51:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Avraham Stern</name>
<email>avraham.stern@intel.com</email>
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<published>2016-07-05T14:10:13+00:00</published>
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Beacon report radio measurement requires reporting observed BSSs
on the channels specified in the beacon request. If the measurement
mode is set to passive or active, it requires actually performing a
scan (passive or active, accordingly), and reporting the time that
the scan was started and the time each beacon/probe was received
(both in terms of TSF of the BSS of the requesting AP). If the
request mode is table, this information is optional.
In addition, the radio measurement request specifies the channel
dwell time for the measurement.

In order to use scan for beacon report when the mode is active or
passive, add a parameter to scan request that specifies the
channel dwell time, and add scan start time and beacon received time
to scan results information.

Supporting beacon report is required for Multi Band Operation (MBO).

Signed-off-by: Assaf Krauss &lt;assaf.krauss@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Spinadel &lt;david.spinadel@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Avraham Stern &lt;avraham.stern@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho &lt;luciano.coelho@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Beacon report radio measurement requires reporting observed BSSs
on the channels specified in the beacon request. If the measurement
mode is set to passive or active, it requires actually performing a
scan (passive or active, accordingly), and reporting the time that
the scan was started and the time each beacon/probe was received
(both in terms of TSF of the BSS of the requesting AP). If the
request mode is table, this information is optional.
In addition, the radio measurement request specifies the channel
dwell time for the measurement.

In order to use scan for beacon report when the mode is active or
passive, add a parameter to scan request that specifies the
channel dwell time, and add scan start time and beacon received time
to scan results information.

Supporting beacon report is required for Multi Band Operation (MBO).

Signed-off-by: Assaf Krauss &lt;assaf.krauss@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Spinadel &lt;david.spinadel@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Avraham Stern &lt;avraham.stern@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho &lt;luciano.coelho@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-davem-2016-06-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next</title>
<updated>2016-06-11T06:13:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
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<published>2016-06-11T06:13:32+00:00</published>
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Johannes Berg says:

====================
For the next cycle, we have the following:
 * the biggest change is Michał's work on integrating FQ/codel
   with the mac80211 internal software queues
 * cfg80211 connect result gets clarified for the
   "no connection at all" case
 * advertisement of per-interface type capabilities, in case
   they differ (which makes a lot of sense for some capabilities)
 * most of the nl80211 &amp; hwsim unprivileged namespace operation
   changes
 * human-readable VHT capabilities in debugfs
 * some other cleanups, like spelling
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Johannes Berg says:

====================
For the next cycle, we have the following:
 * the biggest change is Michał's work on integrating FQ/codel
   with the mac80211 internal software queues
 * cfg80211 connect result gets clarified for the
   "no connection at all" case
 * advertisement of per-interface type capabilities, in case
   they differ (which makes a lot of sense for some capabilities)
 * most of the nl80211 &amp; hwsim unprivileged namespace operation
   changes
 * human-readable VHT capabilities in debugfs
 * some other cleanups, like spelling
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cfg80211: remove get/set antenna and tx power warnings</title>
<updated>2016-06-09T07:44:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-09T07:40:55+00:00</published>
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Since set_tx_power and set_antenna are frequently implemented
without the matching get_tx_power/get_antenna, we shouldn't
have added warnings for those. Remove them.

The remaining ones are correct and need to be implemented
symmetrically for correct operation.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: de3bb771f471 ("cfg80211: add more warnings for inconsistent ops")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Since set_tx_power and set_antenna are frequently implemented
without the matching get_tx_power/get_antenna, we shouldn't
have added warnings for those. Remove them.

The remaining ones are correct and need to be implemented
symmetrically for correct operation.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: de3bb771f471 ("cfg80211: add more warnings for inconsistent ops")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<title>cfg80211: Advertise extended capabilities per interface type to userspace</title>
<updated>2016-05-31T13:23:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kanchanapally, Vidyullatha</name>
<email>vkanchan@qti.qualcomm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-16T05:11:04+00:00</published>
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The driver extended capabilities may differ for different
interface types which the userspace needs to know (for
example the fine timing measurement initiator and responder
bits might differ for a station and AP). Add a new nl80211
attribute to provide extended capabilities per interface type
to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Vidyullatha Kanchanapally &lt;vkanchan@qti.qualcomm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jouni Malinen &lt;jouni@qca.qualcomm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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The driver extended capabilities may differ for different
interface types which the userspace needs to know (for
example the fine timing measurement initiator and responder
bits might differ for a station and AP). Add a new nl80211
attribute to provide extended capabilities per interface type
to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Vidyullatha Kanchanapally &lt;vkanchan@qti.qualcomm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jouni Malinen &lt;jouni@qca.qualcomm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cfg80211: make wdev_list accessible to drivers</title>
<updated>2016-05-12T09:16:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-03T13:52:04+00:00</published>
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There's no harm in having drivers read the list, since they can
use RCU protection or RTNL locking; allow this to not require
each and every driver to also implement its own bookkeeping.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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There's no harm in having drivers read the list, since they can
use RCU protection or RTNL locking; allow this to not require
each and every driver to also implement its own bookkeeping.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cfg80211: remove enum ieee80211_band</title>
<updated>2016-04-12T13:56:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-12T13:56:15+00:00</published>
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This enum is already perfectly aliased to enum nl80211_band, and
the only reason for it is that we get IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS out of
it. There's no really good reason to not declare the number of
bands in nl80211 though, so do that and remove the cfg80211 one.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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This enum is already perfectly aliased to enum nl80211_band, and
the only reason for it is that we get IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS out of
it. There's no really good reason to not declare the number of
bands in nl80211 though, so do that and remove the cfg80211 one.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nl80211: add feature for BSS selection support</title>
<updated>2016-04-05T08:56:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arend van Spriel</name>
<email>arend@broadcom.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-02T19:37:18+00:00</published>
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Introducing a new feature that the driver can use to
indicate the driver/firmware supports configuration of BSS
selection criteria upon CONNECT command. This can be useful
when multiple BSS-es are found belonging to the same ESS,
ie. Infra-BSS with same SSID. The criteria can then be used to
offload selection of a preferred BSS.

Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman &lt;meuleman@broadcom.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin &lt;frankyl@broadcom.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts &lt;pieterpg@broadcom.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lei Zhang &lt;leizh@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel &lt;arend@broadcom.com&gt;
[move wiphy support check into parse_bss_select()]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Introducing a new feature that the driver can use to
indicate the driver/firmware supports configuration of BSS
selection criteria upon CONNECT command. This can be useful
when multiple BSS-es are found belonging to the same ESS,
ie. Infra-BSS with same SSID. The criteria can then be used to
offload selection of a preferred BSS.

Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman &lt;meuleman@broadcom.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin &lt;frankyl@broadcom.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts &lt;pieterpg@broadcom.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lei Zhang &lt;leizh@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel &lt;arend@broadcom.com&gt;
[move wiphy support check into parse_bss_select()]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2016-03-08T17:34:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-08T17:34:12+00:00</published>
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Several cases of overlapping changes, as well as one instance
(vxlan) of a bug fix in 'net' overlapping with code movement
in 'net-next'.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Several cases of overlapping changes, as well as one instance
(vxlan) of a bug fix in 'net' overlapping with code movement
in 'net-next'.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cfg80211: add more warnings for inconsistent ops</title>
<updated>2016-02-24T08:04:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ola Olsson</name>
<email>ola1olsson@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-16T21:43:35+00:00</published>
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Print a warning whenever an expected callback function
lacks implementation.

Signed-off-by: Ola Olsson &lt;ola.olsson@sonymobile.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Print a warning whenever an expected callback function
lacks implementation.

Signed-off-by: Ola Olsson &lt;ola.olsson@sonymobile.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cfg80211/wext: fix message ordering</title>
<updated>2016-01-29T16:13:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-27T12:29:34+00:00</published>
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Since cfg80211 frequently takes actions from its netdev notifier
call, wireless extensions messages could still be ordered badly
since the wext netdev notifier, since wext is built into the
kernel, runs before the cfg80211 netdev notifier. For example,
the following can happen:

5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default
    link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP&gt;
    link/ether

when setting the interface down causes the wext message.

To also fix this, export the wireless_nlevent_flush() function
and also call it from the cfg80211 notifier.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Since cfg80211 frequently takes actions from its netdev notifier
call, wireless extensions messages could still be ordered badly
since the wext netdev notifier, since wext is built into the
kernel, runs before the cfg80211 netdev notifier. For example,
the following can happen:

5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default
    link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP&gt;
    link/ether

when setting the interface down causes the wext message.

To also fix this, export the wireless_nlevent_flush() function
and also call it from the cfg80211 notifier.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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