linux.git/net/mac80211/chan.c, branch v4.2

mac80211: adjust reserved chan_ctx when assigned to vif

2015-05-07T12:24:52+00:00

When a vif starts using a reserved channel context (during CSA, for example)
the required chandef was recalculated, however it was never applied.
This could result in using chanctx with narrower width than actually
required. Fix this by calling ieee80211_change_chanctx with the recalculated
chandef. This both changes the chanctx's width and recalcs min_def.

Signed-off-by: Andrei Otcheretianski 
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: add TX fastpath

2015-04-22T08:02:25+00:00

In order to speed up mac80211's TX path, add the "fast-xmit" cache
that will cache the data frame 802.11 header and other data to be
able to build the frame more quickly. This cache is rebuilt when
external triggers imply changes, but a lot of the checks done per
packet today are simplified away to the check for the cache.

There's also a more detailed description in the code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: clear sdata->radar_required

2015-02-24T09:51:06+00:00

If ieee80211_vif_use_channel() fails, we have to clear
sdata->radar_required (which we might have just set).

Failing to do it results in stale radar_required field
which prevents starting new scan requests.

Reported-by: Jouni Malinen 
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller 
[use false instead of 0]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: enable TPC through mac80211 stack

2015-01-23T09:28:51+00:00

Control per packet Transmit Power Control (TPC) in lower drivers
according to TX power settings configured by the user. In particular TPC is
enabled if value passed in enum nl80211_tx_power_setting is
NL80211_TX_POWER_LIMITED (allow using less than specified from userspace),
whereas TPC is disabled if nl80211_tx_power_setting is set to
NL80211_TX_POWER_FIXED (use value configured from userspace)

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: consider only relevant vifs for radar_required calculation

2015-01-14T08:37:06+00:00

ctx->conf.radar_enabled should reflect whether radar
detection is enabled for the channel context.

When calculating it, make it consider only the vifs
that have this context assigned (instead of all the
vifs).

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: remove local->radar_detect_enabled

2015-01-14T08:37:06+00:00

local->radar_detect_enabled should tell whether
radar_detect is enabled on any interface belonging
to local.

However, it's not getting updated correctly
in many cases (actually, when testing with hwsim
it's never been set, even when the dfs master
is beaconing).

Instead of handling all the corner cases
(e.g. channel switch), simply check whether
radar detection is enabled only when needed,
instead of caching the result.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: update the channel context after channel switch

2014-12-12T11:35:38+00:00

When the channel switch has been made, a vif is now using
the channel context which was reserved. When that happens,
we need to update the channel context since its parameters
may change.

I hit a case in which I switched to a 40Mhz channel but the
reserved channel context was still on 20Mhz. The rate control
would try to send 40Mhz packets on a 20Mhz channel context and
that made iwlwifi's firmware unhappy.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: copy chandef from AP vif to VLANs

2014-11-27T16:36:47+00:00

Instead of keeping track of all those special cases where
VLAN interfaces have no bss_conf.chandef, just make sure
they have the same as the AP interface they belong to.

Among others, this fixes a crash getting a VLAN's channel
from userspace since a NULL channel is returned as a good
result (return value 0) for VLANs since the commit below.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.18 only]
Fixes: c12bc4885f4b3 ("mac80211: return the vif's chandef in ieee80211_cfg_get_channel()")
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
[rewrite commit log]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: 802.11p OCB mode support

2014-11-04T12:18:21+00:00

This patch adds 802.11p OCB (Outside the Context of a BSS) mode
support.

When communicating in OCB mode a mandatory wildcard BSSID
(48 '1' bits) is used.

The EDCA parameters handling function was changed to support
802.11p specific values.

The insertion of a newly discovered STAs is done in the similar way
as in the IBSS mode -- through the deferred insertion.

The OCB mode uses a periodic 'housekeeping task' for expiration of
disconnected STAs (in the similar manner as in the MESH mode).

New Kconfig option for verbose OCB debugging outputs is added.

Signed-off-by: Rostislav Lisovy 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: 802.11p OCB mode handling

2014-11-04T12:18:17+00:00

This patch adds new iface type (NL80211_IFTYPE_OCB) representing
the OCB (Outside the Context of a BSS) mode.
When establishing a connection to the network a cfg80211_join_ocb
function is called (particular nl80211_command is added as well).
A mandatory parameters during the ocb_join operation are 'center
frequency' and 'channel width (5/10 MHz)'.

Changes done in mac80211 are minimal possible required to avoid
many warnings (warning: enumeration value 'NL80211_IFTYPE_OCB'
not handled in switch) during compilation. Full functionality
(where needed) is added in the following patch.

Signed-off-by: Rostislav Lisovy 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg