linux.git/net/core/wireless.c, branch v2.6.18

[PATCH] Send wireless netlink events with a clean slate

2006-08-04T18:57:19+00:00

Drivers expect to be able to call wireless_send_event in arbitrary
contexts.  On the other hand, netlink really doesn't like being
invoked in an IRQ context.  So we need to postpone the sending of
netlink skb's to a tasklet.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

[PATCH] wext: Fix RtNetlink ENCODE security permissions

2006-04-19T21:25:41+00:00

	I've just realised that the RtNetlink code does not check the
permission for SIOCGIWENCODE and SIOCGIWENCODEEXT, which means that
any user can read the encryption keys. The fix is trivial and should
go in 2.6.17 alonside the two other patch I sent you last week.

Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

[PATCH] WE-20 for kernel 2.6.16

2006-03-23T12:12:57+00:00

	This is version 20 of the Wireless Extensions. This is the
completion of the RtNetlink work I started early 2004, it enables the
full Wireless Extension API over RtNetlink.

	Few comments on the patch :
	o totally driver transparent, no change in drivers needed.
	o iwevent were already RtNetlink based since they were created
(around 2.5.7). This adds all the regular SET and GET requests over
RtNetlink, using the exact same mechanism and data format as iwevents.
	o This is a Kconfig option, as currently most people have no
need for it. Surprisingly, patch is actually small and well
encapsulated.
	o Tested on SMP, attention as been paid to make it 64 bits clean.
	o Code do probably too many checks and could be further
optimised, but better safe than sorry.
	o RtNetlink based version of the Wireless Tools available on
my web page for people inclined to try out this stuff.

	I would also like to thank Alexey Kuznetsov for his helpful
suggestions to make this patch better.

Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

Fix net/core/wireless.c link failure

2006-01-11T03:35:19+00:00

It needs  for compare_ether_addr()

[NET]: Change memcmp(,,ETH_ALEN) to compare_ether_addr()

2006-01-10T20:54:28+00:00

This changes some memcmp(one,two,ETH_ALEN) to compare_ether_addr(one,two).

Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[PATCH] kill massive wireless-related log spam

2005-10-26T17:39:43+00:00

Although this message is having the intended effect of causing wireless
driver maintainers to upgrade their code, I never should have merged this
patch in its present form.  Leading to tons of bug reports and unhappy
users.

Some wireless apps poll for statistics regularly, which leads to a printk()
every single time they ask for stats.  That's a little bit _too_ much of a
reminder that the driver is using an old API.

Change this to printing out the message once, per kernel boot.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] WE-19 for kernel 2.6.13

2005-09-07T02:40:24+00:00

	Hi Jeff,

	This is version 19 of the Wireless Extensions. It was supposed
to be the fallback of the WPA API changes, but people seem quite happy
about it (especially Jouni), so the patch is rather small.
	The patch has been fully tested with 2.6.13 and various
wireless drivers, and is in its final version. Would you mind pushing
that into Linus's kernel so that the driver and the apps can take
advantage ot it ?

	It includes :
	o iwstat improvement (explicit dBm). This is the result of
long discussions with Dan Williams, the authors of
NetworkManager. Thanks to him for all the fruitful feedback.
	o remove pointer from event stream. I was not totally sure if
this pointer was 32-64 bits clean, so I'd rather remove it and be at
peace with it.
	o remove linux header from wireless.h. This has long been
requested by people writting user space apps, now it's done, and it
was not even painful.
	o final deprecation of spy_offset. You did not like it, it's
now gone for good.
	o Start deprecating dev->get_wireless_stats -> debloat netdev
	o Add "check" version of event macros for ieee802.11
stack. Jiri Benc doesn't like the current macros, we aim to please ;-)
	All those changes, except the last one, have been bit-roting on
my web pages for a while...

	Patches for most kernel drivers will follow. Patches for the
Orinoco and the HostAP drivers have been sent to their respective
maintainers.

	Have fun...

	Jean
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

[NET]: Fix sparse warnings

2005-08-29T23:01:32+00:00

Of this type, mostly:

CHECK   net/ipv6/netfilter.c
net/ipv6/netfilter.c:96:12: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
net/ipv6/netfilter.c:101:6: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_fini' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NETLINK]: Convert netlink users to use group numbers instead of bitmasks

2005-08-29T23:00:54+00:00

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NETLINK]: Missing initializations in dumped data

2005-06-28T19:55:30+00:00

Mostly missing initialization of padding fields of 1 or 2 bytes length,
two instances of uninitialized nlmsgerr->msg of 16 bytes length.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller