linux.git/net/core/wireless.c, branch v2.6.20

[NET]: Memory barrier cleanups

2006-12-07T08:11:33+00:00

I believe all the below memory barriers only matter on SMP so
therefore the smp_* variant of the barrier should be used.

I'm wondering if the barrier in net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c should be
dropped entirely.  schedule_work's implementation currently implies a
memory barrier and I think sane semantics of schedule_work() should imply
a memory barrier, as needed so the caller shouldn't have to worry.
It's not quite obvious why the barrier in net/packet/af_packet.c is
needed; maybe it should be implied through flush_dcache_page?

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[PATCH] wireless: WE-20 compatibility for ESSID and NICKN ioctls

2006-10-19T21:08:19+00:00

WE-21 changed the ABI for the SIOC[SG]IW{ESSID,NICKN} ioctls by dropping
NULL termination.  This patch adds compatibility code so that WE-21 can
work properly with WE-20 (and older) tools.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

[PATCH] WE-21 support (core API)

2006-09-25T20:52:14+00:00

This is version 21 of the Wireless Extensions. Changelog :
	o finishes migrating the ESSID API (remove the +1)
	o netdev->get_wireless_stats is no more
	o long/short retry

This is a redacted version of a patch originally submitted by Jean
Tourrilhes.  I removed most of the additions, in order to minimize
future support requirements for nl80211 (or other WE successor).

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

[WIRELESS]: Convert notifications to use rtnl_notify()

2006-09-22T21:55:00+00:00

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: Remove unnecessary config.h includes from net/

2006-09-22T21:54:21+00:00

config.h is automatically included by kbuild these days.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[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